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AnonTechie writes:

Liberal societies such as the UK, USA, and Australia are among the most harmful to their citizens, according to new research from the University of Birmingham.

And the austerity programmes unfolding across Europe are likely to increase the 'social harms' experienced by people in those countries.

A new book by Dr Simon Pemberton, an expert on social harm — defined as the avoidable injuries caused by the way a society is organised &mdas; looks at measures such as suicide, road traffic accidents, obesity, poverty and unemployment across 31 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. The book, Harmful Societies: Understanding social harm, is published by Policy Press at the University of Bristol. ( http://www.policypress.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781847427946&dtspan=0:90&ds=Forthcoming%20Titles&m=2&dc=32 )

http://phys.org/news/2015-03-british-society-citizens.html

[Source]: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/2015/03/harmful-societies-16-03-15.aspx