Gestor bibliográfico Crisis y Salud

In the past two years, I have been interviewed by the media in the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Holland, and Greece. One persistent line of questioning has been whether Greeks are “dying on the street,” or getting “kicked out of hospitals.” Since horror stories increase newspaper circulation, the press has even discovered mothers who “were denied their babies after delivery until they paid the state hospital bill.”1 There is also talk of “dramatic rise in suicides.”2 An article in the Lancet last year, which referred to a deterioration of health status, was widely reproduced by the Greek press but criticised by the academic community as irrelevant because the evidence was dated.3 But as far as the actual effects on health that the article discussed, it is definitely too early to know.