Once again, Stuckler and Basu provide us with three new examples of how providing government funds is best for the country and its citizens while cutting funds may cause and increase in death rates. The NHS in the UK is losing popularity for reasons that are unexplainable since the country did well with the NHS. An effort made by the Swedish government to prevent suicide drastically paid off. The graphs given simply depict how while unemployment rates led to higher suicide rates in Italy and the US, Sweden saw a decrease in suicide rates despite higher rates of unemployment. The reason for it was the Sweden provided the ALMP which attempted to help people that were unemployed find jobs once again instead of simply handing them money. It seems then that motivating people to be productive counteracts the unemployed men wanting to commit suicide.
It is quite random that house foreclosures resulted in leaving pools as breeding grounds for mosquitoes in California. However, the rest of the statistics that resulted from homelessness occurred consistently.
