Deaths Found Rising Following Recessions
More Americans will die of heart disease, strokes and kid-, ncy failure as a result of thei rising unemployment, a Johns i Hopkins social scientist says. !</br></br>There also will be an in-creajse in the nationÛªs infant mortality rate and more people will be admitted to mental hospitals because of the current recession, says Dr. M. Harvey Brenner, an associate professor in the School of Hy-s giene and Public Health.</br></br>ÛÏThere are few areas of our j livessthat are not intimately! affected by the state of the; economy,Û he says.	!</br></br>The cause is simple: a reces-1 sion increases the amount of; stress on an individual, saysj Brenner, who has spent 12 j years studying economic cy-| cles and health statistics cov-: ering the past 127 years.	j</br></br>He is one of the few social! scientists inÛªthe country doing this type of research. Last year, during the energy crisis, he was called in as a consultant by the Department of I Health, Education and Wei- ] fare and the White HouseÛªs Office of Management arid Budget.