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HEALTH AND ECONOMIC CRISES
JOSÉ TAPIA

Given that the Great Recession of 2008, despite its official termination in 2009, is clearly continuing on its gloomy way around the globe, it can only be cheering to learn that economic downturns are good for public health.

<em>Mortality for all causes, for cardiovascular disease (C.V.D.), suicide, infant mortality, and mortality for the elderly (ages 75 and over) in Finland, Greece, and Iceland, 1990 - 2011. The shaded area corresponds to the period of the Great Recession.</em> Age-adjusted rates per 100,000 population, except infant mortality, per 1000 live births. Source: WHO-Europe, <a href=data.euro.who.int/hfadb/" />

NYU Graduate Union Votes for Change

By Samuel Feldblum

Last month in this space, H. Rutgers (self-unmasked in the Web version as faculty member Gary Roth) described the increasing profiteering of top university figures at his namesake school while lower-level professors and students foot the bill.

In the Shadow of Gentrification

By Elizabeth Kissam

A discussion of gentrification is raw. It strikes an intimate chord, slicing into long-term community ties and financial pressures around where to live. It also has a slippery quality. Scholars disagree on a definition.

The edge of Fort Greene Park in the 1970s. © Chester Higgins Jr./chesterhiggins.com.
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