Financial Crisis, Unemployment Spur Suicides, Researchers Say
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The financial turmoil that’s swollen the ranks of the unemployed in Europe may be to blame for a growing number of suicides.
Scientists studying the link between economic downturns, joblessness and mortality over the past three decades said an early look at data for 2009 shows suicides increased in nine European countries in the year after the crisis began. Their comments were published today in the medical journal The Lancet.