Wow. This is interesting. Really interesting. Lisa
on 10/10/2002 10:38 AM, ravi at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > -------- Original Message -------- > > http://abc.net.au/health/minutes/stories/s698150.htm > An Australian study of suicide over the last century has found > significantly increased rates when conservative governments > have been in power compared to Labor. They've taken into > account every factor they could think of which could have > explained the result and the relationship persists. > > [...] > > So convincing were the findings that a British group has done > an analysis for the UK and found a similar pattern there, > with, for example, a big jump when Margaret Thatcher came to > power. They estimated 35,000 excess deaths from suicide in the > UK associated with Conservative rule in the 20th century. >
