Nature Magazine reports: "A nation's suicide rate increases under
right-wing governments according two studies that have looked at
Australia and Britain over the past century. Alienation and
isolation may run higher in societies driven by competitive market
forces, suggest the teams behind the findings. Left-wing rule,
focusing more on equality, might put people under less pressure.
Says social scientist Mary Shaw of the University of Bristol, UK.
"We need to look not just at the immediate biomedical factors
affecting health, but also how we organize society," she says. The
results are unsurprising, says Cary Cooper, a psychologist at the
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology,
UK:  Poorer social support and higher job insecurity may drive more
to suicide under conservative regimes."
http://www.nature.com/nsu/020916/020916-17.html

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