Gestor bibliográfico Crisis y Salud

Financial recessions and their socioeconomic sequelae can have diverse consequences for population health, a fact that has attracted considerable attention since the 2008 global financial crisis.1 It has long been known that economic conditions can influence suicide rates.2 The depression of the late 1920s to early 1930s was associated with marked rises in suicide, especially in men, which parallelled increases in unemployment.3 The Asian economic recession of 1997-98 was also followed by rising suicide rates, which reflected financial and unemployment indices.4