On December 1, 2008, the National Bureau of Economic Researchdeclared that the U.S. economy had been in recession since December2007. The number of Americans seeking unemployment compensationhas reached levels unmatched since 1983, when we were sufferingthe worst recession since the Great Depression. Intuition suggeststhat the fear or experience of job loss, coupled with the decliningvalue of homes and investments, makes many of us anxious, causesus to reduce discretionary spending (including that on medicalcare), and distracts us from taking preventive measures. Manyphysicians may therefore assume that our economic crisis willincrease the . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Dr. Catalano is a professor of public health and director of the Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Program, University of California, Berkeley.
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