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Suicide, recession, and unemployment – Authors' reply
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The Lancet (British edition), 2013-03, Vol.381 (9868), p.722-722
Ort / Verlag
England: Elsevier Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
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Yet, similar to the Baltics, suicides in Ukraine increased over and above long-term trends starting in 2007.4 Argentinian data, as cited by Fountoulakis and colleagues, actually suggest an increase in suicide after the 1999-2002 recession compared with the previous downward trend.5 In Hungary, there has been a rise in the suicide rate corresponding to the threat of, and subsequent rise in, unemployment between 2007 and 2009.6 Given strong evidence that economic recession is a risk factor for suicide, as now independently verified by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,7 and that rising unemployment accounts for a sizeable proportion of these excess suicides,8 we believe that the priority for public health researchers should now be to understand how some countries, such as Sweden and Finland, have managed to mitigate increases in suicides after marked economic recessions, whereas others, such as Greece, have not.9 We declare that we have no conflicts of interest.