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Politicians have talked endlessly about the seismic economic and social impacts of the recent financial meltdown, but many continue steadily to ignore its disastrous effects on individual health - and have even exacerbated them, by implementing harsh austerity measures and cutting key communal programs at the same time when constituents need them most. The result, as pioneering open public health experts David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu reveal in this provocative audiobook, is that many countries have converted their recessions into veritable epidemics, ruining or extinguishing thousands of lives in a misguided attempt to balance finances and shore up financial markets. Yet, sound alternate policies could instead assist in improving economies and protect open public health at the same time. In The Body Economic, Stuckler and Basu mine data from around the globe and throughout background showing how government insurance plan becomes a matter of life and death during financial crises. In a series of historical circumstance studies stretching out from 1930s America, to Russia and Indonesia in the 1990s, to present-day Greece, Britain, Spain, and the U.S., Stuckler and Basu show you that governmental mismanagement of financial strife has led to a grim selection of individual tragedies, from suicides to HIV infections. Yet, people can and do stay healthy, and even get healthier, during downturns. Through the Great Unhappiness, U.S. deaths actually plummeted, now Iceland, Norway, and Japan are more happy and healthier than ever before, proof that open public wellbeing do not need to be sacrificed for fiscal health. Full of shocking and counterintuitive revelations and bold policy tips, The Body Economic offers an option to austerity - one which will prevent common hurting, both now and in the future.
