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. Health Impact Assessments were used for selected policies by the UK's Labour government before the Tories came into power in 2010. We are grateful to Klim McPherson for the suggestion to institute an Office of Health Responsibility.

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B.
  
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British Medical Journal
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A.
  
Bessudnov, M. McKee, and D. Stuckler. “Inequalities in male mortality by occupational class, perceived social status, and education in Russia, 1994–2006.”
European Journal of Public Health
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J.
  
Bor, S. Basu, A. Coutts, M. McKee, D. Stuckler. “Alcohol use during the Great Recession of 2008–2009.”
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M.
  
Bordo, C. Meissner, and D. Stuckler. “Foreign currency debt, financial crises and economic growth: A long run view.”
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R.
  
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R.
  
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Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
. January 2013. In press.

M.
  
Gili, M. Roca, S. Basu, M. McKee, D. Stuckler. “The mental health risks of unemployment, housing payment difficulties, and evictions in Spain: evidence from primary care centres, 2006 and 2010.”
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P.
  
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M.
  
Karanikolos, P. Mladovsky, J. Cylus, S. Thomson, S. Basu, D. Stuckler, J. P. Mackenbach, M. McKee. “Financial crisis, austerity, and health in Europe.”
The Lancet
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A.
  
Kentikelenis, M. Karanikolos, I. Papanicolas, S. Basu, M. McKee, D. Stuckler. “Effects of Greek economic crisis on health are real.”
British Medical Journal
. December 2012, v345: e8602.

A. Kentikelenis, M. Karanikolos, I. Papanicolas, S. Basu, M. McKee, D. Stuckler. “Health effects of financial crisis: omens of a Greek tragedy.”
The Lancet.
October 2011, v378(9801): 1457–58.

A.
  
Kentikelenis, M. Karanikolos, I. Papanicolas, S. Basu, M. McKee, D. Stuckler. “Reply to Polyzos.”
The Lancet
. March 2012, v379: 1002.

L.
  
King, P. Hamm, and D. Stuckler. “Rapid large-scale privatization and death rates in ex-communist countries: an analysis of stress-related and health system mechanisms.”
International Journal of Health Services
. July 2009, 39(3): 461–89.

M.
  
McKee and D. Stuckler. “The assault on universalism: How to destroy the welfare state.”
British Medical Journal
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M.
  
McKee and D. Stuckler. “The consequences for health and health care of the financial crisis: a new Dark Age?” In Finnish.
Sosiaalilääketieteellinen Aikakauslehti.
March 2012, v49: 69–74.

M.
  
McKee and D. Stuckler. “Older people in the United Kingdom: under attack from all directions.”
Age and Ageing
. January 2013, v42(1): 11–13.

M.
  
McKee, S. Basu, and D. Stuckler. “Health systems, health and wealth: the argument for investment applies now more than ever.”
Social Science & Medicine
. March 2012, v74(5): 684–87.

M.
  
McKee, M. Karanikolos, P. Belcher, D. Stuckler. “Austerity: a failed experiment on the people of Europe.”
Clinical Medicine
. August 2012, v12(4): 346–50.

M.
  
McKee, D. Stuckler, J. M. Martin-Moreno. “Protecting health in hard times.”
British Medical Journal
. September 2010. v341: c5308.

C.
  
Quercioli, G. Messina, S. Basu, M. McKee, N. Nante, D. Stuckler. “The effect of health care delivery privatization on avoidable mortality: longitudinal cross-regional results from Italy, 1993–2003.”
Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.
2013, v67(2): 132–38.

B.
  
Rechel, M. Suhrcke, S. Tsolova, J. Suk, M. Desai, M. McKee, D. Stuckler, I. Abubakar, P. Hunter, M. Senek, J. Semenza. “Economic crisis and communicable disease control in Europe: A scoping study among national experts.”
Health Policy
. December 2011, v103(2–3): 168–75.

A.
  
Reeves, D. Stuckler, M. McKee, D. Gunnell, S. Chang, S. Basu. “Increase in state suicide rates in the USA during economic recession.”
The Lancet
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D.
  
Stuckler and S. Basu. “International Monetary Fund's effects on global health: before and after the 2008 financial crisis.”
International Journal of Health Services
. September 2009, 39(4): 771–81.

D.
  
Stuckler, S. Basu, P. Fishback, C. Meissner, M. McKee. “Banking crises and mortality during the Great Depression: Evidence from U.S. urban populations, 1929–1937.”
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
. June 2012, 66(5): 410–19.

D. Stuckler, S. Basu, P. Fishback, C. Meissner, M. McKee. “Was the Great Depression a cause or correlate of falling mortality?”
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
. November 2012. In press.

D.
  
Stuckler, S. Basu, and M. McKee. “Budget crises, health, and social welfare.”
British Medical Journal
. July 2010, 340: c3311.

D.
  
Stuckler, S. Basu, and M. McKee. “Effects of the 2008 financial crisis on health: A first look at European data.”
The Lancet
. July 2011, v378(9876): 124–25.

D.
  
Stuckler, S. Basu, and M. McKee. “How government spending cuts put lives at risk.”
Nature
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D.
  
Stuckler, S. Basu, and M. McKee. “Public health in Europe: Power, politics, and where next?”
Public Health Reviews
. July 2010, v1: 214–42.

D.
  
Stuckler, S. Basu, M. McKee, M. Suhrcke. “Responding to the economic crisis: A primer for public health professionals.”
Journal of Public Health
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D.
  
Stuckler, S. Basu, M. McKee, et al. “An evaluation of the International Monetary Fund's claims about public health.”
International Journal of Health Services
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D.
  
Stuckler, S. Basu, M. Suhrcke, A. Coutts, M. McKee. “Financial crisis and health policy.”
Medicine & Health
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D.
  
Stuckler, S. Basu, M. Suhrcke, A. Coutts, M. McKee. “The public health effect of economic crises and alternative policy responses in Europe: an empirical analysis.”
The Lancet
. July 2009, 374(9686): 315–32.

D.
  
Stuckler, S. Basu, M. Suhrcke, M. McKee. “The health implications of financial crisis: A review of the evidence”
Ulster Medical Journal
. September 2009, 78(3): 142–45.

D.
  
Stuckler, S. Basu, S. Wang, M. McKee. “Does recession reduce global health aid? Evidence from 15 countries, 1975–2007.”
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
. April 2011, v89: 252–57.

D.
  
Stuckler, L. King and S. Basu. “International Monetary Fund programs and tuberculosis outcomes in post-communist countries.”
PLoS Medicine
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D.
  
Stuckler, L. King, and S. Basu. “Reply to Murray and King.”
PLoS Medicine.
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D.
  
Stuckler, L. King, and A. Coutts. “Understanding privatisation's impacts on health: Lessons from the Soviet Experience.”
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
July 2008, 62(7): 664.

D.
  
Stuckler, L. King, and M. McKee. “The disappearing health effects of rapid privatization: a case of statistical obscurantism?”
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, March 2012, 75: 23–31.

D.
  
Stuckler, L. King, and M. McKee. “Mass privatisation and mortality.” The
Lancet
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D. Stuckler, L. King, and M. McKee. “Mass privatisation and the post-communist mortality crisis: a cross-national analysis.”
The Lancet
. January 2009, 373(9661): 399–407.

D.
  
Stuckler, L. King, and M. McKee. “Reply to Earle and Gerry.”
The Lancet
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D.
  
Stuckler, L. King, and M. McKee. “Response to Gentile: Mass privatization, unemployment, and mortality.”
Europe-Asia Studies.
June 2012, v64(5): 949–53.

D.
  
Stuckler and M. McKee. “There is an alternative: public health professionals must not remain silent at a time of financial crisis.”
European Journal of Public Health
. February 2012, v22(1): 2–3.

D.
  
Stuckler, C. Meissner, and L. King. “Can a bank crisis break your heart?”
Globalization and Health
, January 2008, 4(1): 1–12.

M.
  
Suhrcke, M. McKee, D. Stuckler, et al. “Contribution of health to the economy of the European Union.”
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M.
  
Suhrcke, M. McKee, D. Stuckler, et al. “The economic crisis and infectious disease control.”
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M.
  
Suhrcke and D. Stuckler. “Will the recession be bad for our health? It depends.”
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M.
  
Suhrcke, D. Stuckler, J. Suk, et al. “The impact of economic crises on communicable disease transmission and control: a systematic review of the evidence.”
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We are deeply indebted to our many colleagues who have worked with us over the years and provided unparalleled support and guidance, offering their critical eyes and vast repositories of wisdom to review this book as it came together. First of these, we are indebted to Martin McKee, our dear friend and close colleague who worked with us tirelessly in this research and continues to prove himself a paragon of integrity and virtue in public health. We also appreciate our many collaborators, without whose support the research that went into this book would not be as well-developed: Adam Coutts, Christopher Meissner, Marc Suhrcke, Price Fishback, David Taylor-Robinson, Benjamin Barr, Alexander Kentikelenis, Irene Papanicolas, Michael Marmot, Roberto De Vogli, Marina Karanikolos, Alexey Bessudnov, Johan Mackenbach, Lawrence King, Jose Martin-Moreno, Vicente Navarro, Michael Harhay, Jacob Bor, Karen Siegel, Chris McClure, Margalida Gili, Miquel Roca, David McDaid, David Gunnell, Shu-Sen Chang, Jan Semenza, Gauden Galea, Aaron Reeves, Patrick Hamm, and Ben Cave. Additionally we appreciate the time and energy of those who provided constructive comments, criticisms, and advice at various stages of the book's development, including Vladimir Shkolnikov, Sigur Sigurgeirsdottir, Shah Ebrahim, Ron Labonte, John Thompson, Margaret Whitehead, and Bo Burgstrom. Inevitably, we are unable to thank by name all the peer-reviewers who have contributed anonymous feedback that helped strengthen our analysis. Peer-review is a thankless task, and for those who contributed, we are ever grateful.