<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">crossposted from: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="3" color="maroon" face="Arial"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold">Budget crises, health, and social welfare programmes<br>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold">BMJ 2010; 340:c3311 doi: 10.1136/bmj.c3311 (Published 24 June
2010) </span></font></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">BMJ 2010;
340:c3311 <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">David Stuckler,
researcher 12, Sanjay Basu, physician3, Martin McKee, professor of European
public health4</span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">1 Department of
Sociology, Oxford University, Oxford
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">2 Department of
Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene
and Tropical Medicine, London UK</span></font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="1" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">3 Department of
Medicine, University of California San Francisco and Division of General
Internal Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital </span></font></p>

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on Health of Societies in Transition, London School
of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Available at: </span></font><span><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><a href="http://bit.ly/ddkipc" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="color:navy">http://bit.ly/ddkipc</span></font></a><br>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">“…..Governments
may feel they are protecting health by safeguarding healthcare budgets, the
authors argue that social welfare spending is as important, if not more so, for
population health </span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">The recession of
2008 has had profound economic consequences for many countries. How and when to
reduce budget deficits was a major focus in the recent general election in the
United Kingdom and continues to make headlines around the world. The new
government has already begun to make large cuts in public expenditure,1 2 even
though the UK’s projected underlying debt, as a share of gross domestic product
(GDP), is less than that of other industrialised countries, it has longer than
many other countries before it is required to refinance loans (table 1</span></font><font size="2" color="navy" face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";color:navy">⇓</span></font><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">), and the actual deficit in 2009-10 was considerably less
than expected. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Leading
economists have widely divergent views about whether the cuts will aid or
hinder economic recovery,3 4 but have paid scant attention to the potential
effects of reductions in health and social expenditure on population health.5
We examine historical data for insights into how lower levels of public
spending might affect health…..”<br>
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