医療、社会福祉に対する財政支出けちれば自殺率は悪化する、と

suzukyさんがリツイート

ひろゆきをはじめとして「コロナ禍で自殺者減ってる。不況が人を殺すんじゃないのかよw」という言説が出てきましたが、そんなのとっくに分かっていて、不況では人は死にません（健康になったりもします）　人を殺すのはその後の政府の間違った政策です。具体的にいうと緊縮財政です。 pic.twitter.com/YQAO9SRpBN

— 井上純一（希有馬） (@KEUMAYA) July 22, 2020

COVID-19's impact could include 20 more firearm suicides per day this year, analysis shows
Unemployment can cause "emotional mental health issues," a psychologist says.
ByDr. Alexis E. Carrington
7 July 2020,

Now, a new study finds that the economic downturn caused by COVID-19 could cause about 20 more lives lost per day by suicide, this year alone.

The study comes from the research arm of Everytown for Gun Safety, a non profit organization which advocates for gun control. Researchers at Everytown looked back at prior crises that led to massive unemployment, including the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession that ended in 2010.

The Great Recession, for example, led to an estimated 4,750 additional deaths by suicide -- though not all specifically by firearms. Based on Everytown's research of the impacts of unemployment on suicide from past recessions, the researchers estimate this economic downturn could lead to a 20 to 30% increase in the number of lives lost to suicide in the United States in 2020: an additional 5,000 to 7,000 lives.

Government spending, recession, and suicide: evidence from Japan
Tetsuya Matsubayashi, Kozue Sekijima & Michiko Ueda
BMC Public Health volume 20, Article number: 243 (2020) Cite this article

Austerity has been shown to have an adverse influence on people’s mental health and suicide rates. Most existing studies have focused on the governments’ reactions to a single event, for example, the Great Recession of 2008.


Results
Our analysis revealed that an increase of 1% in the per capita local government expenditures was associated with a decrease of 0.2% in the suicide rates among males and females aged between 40 and 64 and that this correlation was strengthened as the unemployment rate increased, particularly among males.

2.M. Regular workshop: Poverty, hopelessness and suicide

The true cost of the economic crisis on psychological
well-being and suicide: what does the literature tell
us?
Guido Van Hal

Results
Literature shows that there is solid evidence for the existence of a relationship between the economic crisis and a rise in mental health problems resulting in suicides. The main reactions of
most policy makers to the economic crisis are (severe) austerity measures. These measures seem to have, however, a detrimental effect on the mental health of the population. Just when people have the highest need for mental help, costcutting measures in the health sector lead to a (substantial) drop in the supply of services for the prevention, early detection, and cure of mental health problems. Policy makers should support moderating mechanisms such as financial and psychological coping and acculturation and the role of primary
health care workers in the early detection of suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts, and suicide in times of economic recession.Several examples show that countries best off regarding the mental health of their populations during the economic crisis are those countries with the strongest social safety net.

Conclusions
Instead of cutting back on health care and social welfare measures, policy makers should in the future invest even even morein social protection measures during economic crises

Impact of unemployment rate and the economic crisis on suicide mortality in Western European countries
(2000-2010)
Moussa Laanani
Conclusion
Unemployment and suicide rates are globally statistically
associated in the investigated countries

不況や失業で自殺率は上昇するが、緊縮財政やると悪化する。社会福祉に金を惜しむな、と。

直感的にもそうだろうね。いくら不景気になって、失業しても、給料減っても、社会福祉で補ってもらえれば経済的に追い詰められず、その点では心理的にも追い詰められない。

ただし、コロナでの不安や孤立で精神的にまいってくる人たちはいるだろう。