Economic crisis, unemployment and health: conceptual and methodological issues in the modelling of national contexts

摘要: The study by Laanani et al 1 is a welcome contribution to the growing body of empirical literature interrogating relationship between recent economic crisis, unemployment and suicide rates. We nevertheless find that their analysis suffers from three major conceptual methodological shortcomings. First, despite making an important distinction direct indirect effects crisis on rates, we believe these inappropriately specified in analysis. According authors, impact rates explained individual-level effect contextual-level effect. To extent they are modelled distinctly additive fashion, both thought operate independently other. authors distinguish two order parse out any potential bias caused contextual features associated with including increase perceived levels job insecurity political decisions such as budgetary cutbacks. They control for intention isolating independent However, neglect consider ways which latter itself varies function factors attempting provide control.2 Ample evidence exists suggest does not transmit automatically decline output. …