Gestor bibliográfico Crisis y Salud

Round 10 000 extra suicides in the Western world from 2008 to 2010 were highly likely to be related to the recent economic recession, a study has concluded.1 The study, by the University of Oxford and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, was published in the British Journal of Psychiatry on 12 June. It said that suicide rates had risen significantly across Europe, Canada, and the United States since 2007 and that the increase was four times higher among men. However, it noted that certain interventions, such as return to work programmes and prescribing antidepressants, could help to lessen the risk of suicide in hard economic times.