"Recession tied to increase in suicides"

Recession tied to increase in suicides

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/recession-tied-to-increase-in-suicides-1.2672712

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The financial crisis has been linked to a 4.5 per cent increase in Canada’s suicide rate, according to a study that estimates at least 10,000 extra suicides could be connected to economic hardship in EU countries and North America.

Researchers compared suicide data from the World Health Organization before and after the onset of the recession in 2007.

"A crucial question for policy and psychiatric practice is whether these suicide rises are inevitable," Aaron Reeves of Oxford University’s sociology department and his co-authors said in Wednesday’s issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry.

Given that the rise in suicides exceeded what would be expected and the large variations in suicide rates across countries, the researchers suspect some of the suicides were "potentially avoidable."



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