Bank of Greece
released its Monetary
Policy Report 2015-2016 with some shocking admissions enclosed.
The report says that “while it takes longer to record the
exact effect, trends show a deterioration of the
health of Greeks in the years of loan agreements and austerity cuts.”
Although the BoG don’t come right out and say that the
economic crisis and the overbearing austerity
Greeks are living with is ultimately killing them, their report provides the
statistics to prove that, indeed, the crisis is killing Greeks.
The reports’ conclusions in the chapter about “Reforms in
health, economic crisis and
impact on the health of population” are particularly jolting to say the
least, and basically confirms that the physical and mental health of Greeks is
steadily deteriorating due to economic
insecurity, high unemployment, job
insecurity, income decrease and
chronic stress.
Suicides Rate
Increased
The BoG report states that the “risk of suicidal behavior increases when
there are so-called primary risk factors (psychiatric-medical conditions),
while the secondary factors (economic situation) and tertiary factors (age,
gender) affects the risk of suicide.”
Infant Mortality
Increased
Almost a 50% increase has been seen in infant mortality, according to
the report. This number is influenced by various factors such as the increase
of deaths of infants younger than one year along with the decline of births by
22.1%. Previous numbers are shockingly contrasting for an infant mortality
increase, at 2.65 percent in 2008 and 3.75 percent in 2014.
Increase of Mental
Illness in General Population
Depression is a huge factor that many Greeks are currently
dealing with, according to the report. Mental
illness among the population has increased steadily over the years of the
economic crisis as it was at only 3.3 percent in 2008 and more than doubled as
the crisis started to brew, reaching 6.8 percent in 2009, soaring to 8.2
percent in 2011 and to 12.3% in 2013 and keeps climbing remarkably with each
passing year.
Increase of Chronic
Diseases
Another foreseen consequence of the economic crisis that
Greeks are living with deals with healthcare
and that many people do not receive medical help and treatments when needed
because of lack of financial means. The people of Greece have seen an increase
of chronic diseases by approximately 24 percent over the discourse of the
economic crisis and the austerities that have followed.
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