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Ippolyti Chatzi Roshni Shah

The East Asian Financial Crisis of late 1990s, the Easter Europe mortality crisis after the fall of the Soviet Union, the financial crisis of Finland during when unemployment surged to nearly 20%,the housing market crash in 2006 which led to one of the greatest economic crisis first in the US and then in Europe and Greece, had tremendous effects on the public health.

Health effects:  Unemployment _ stress, depression, poverty, social insecurity, all of which are risk factors for suicide  Increase of psychiatric illness  Alcohol consumption and drug use  Mental health services are being cut back _ as part of government austerity programs  Deterioration of health facilities and equipment  Shortage of drugs and other supplies  Especially in the US _ the uninsured rate has now picked at 17% which cause a 40% increase in the mortality rate  Abuse induced head trauma _ as a result of violence has in increased by 65% in the US during the recession period  World’s hunger increased to 1 billion for the first time in history

Since the beginning of the Crisis in 2007 Greece has been affected more than any other European country The dept grew from billion to billion between As a result:  Unemployment from: 6.6% May 2008 to 16.6% May 2011 (youth unemployment: 18.6% - 40% )  40% cut in hospital budgets  Suicides rose 19% from and it will reach 25% by the end of 2011 (50% of suicide cases are due to financial difficulties and inability to repay personal debts  Violence has doubled between (AHD)  Increase in HIV infections to 52% from (922 new cases versus 605)

 Prevalence of heroin dose by 20% ( from )  85 % of the drug users are NOT in a drug rehabilitation programme due to budget cuts  Deliberate self infection of individuals to obtain access to benefits of 700 €/month which have a 3-year waiting list  Increased use of street clinics run by the NGOs(mainly for immigrants) by the Greeks from 3-4% to 30% after the crisis  36 incidents of malaria -from illegal immigrants-. The disease hasn’t occurred in the country for more than 30 years.

Economic Crisis is a HEALTH CRISIS, a HUMAN CRISIS and the only way to fight it is to STOP IGNORING IT!! &feature=relmfu

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