Soaring suicides in Europe: A way out of the economic crises

According to Lancet's report suicides have increased in the European Union as a consequence of the economic crises. Using existing data on mortality from the WHO European Health for All about ten countries (Austria, Finland, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands, UK, Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, and Romania ) and from EUROSTAT concerning the unemployment trends assessed that the increase on suicides among the old members of the EU was almost 7% since 2008. Greece proudly takes the first price with an increase rate of 17% and Ireland the second with 13%.

In another report Lancet assessed that rapid mass privatisation as an economic transition strategy was a crucial determinant of differences in adult mortality trends in post-communist countries associated with an increase in short-term adult male mortality rates of 12·8%.