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Good Economic Times Can Mean Health Risk





The dark side of an economic recovery: more health risk. I doubt this correlation suggests any causal relationship.

From New York Times:

A one-percentage-point fall in the unemployment rate - which is what has happened since the summer of 2003 - leads to 12,000 deaths a year in the United States that might not otherwise have happened, according to Christopher J. Ruhm, an economist at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

When the economy improves, the number of car and workplace accidents rise, as people are on the job and on the road more often. Deaths from heart attacks, flu and pneumonia increase, too. Cancer deaths do not change and suicides fall, but not by nearly enough to overcome the other increases in mortality.

Smoking rises, as does obesity, during a boom. Physical activity falls. The part of the population that drinks remains the same, but some moderate drinkers become heavy drinkers.

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