Unemployment and recession add to the death toll from suicide, murder and heart attacks but cut the number killed in road accidents, according to a study conducted by researchers at Oxford University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The researchers analysed the effect of economic changes on mortality rates in 26 European countries from 1970 to 2007, and found a 3 per cent increase in unemployment led to rises of about 4 per cent in suicide and 6 per cent in murders but a 4 per cent fall in traffic fatalities. The biggest impact was on deaths from alcohol abuse, which rose 28 per cent.

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