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Title: U.S. life expectancy varies by more than 20 years from county to county
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URL Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news ... county/?utm_term=.11ba11011862
Published: May 9, 2017
Author: Joel Achenbach
Post Date: 2017-05-09 07:04:43 by Ada
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Views: 215
Comments: 2

Eight counties with the largest decreases in life expectancy since 1980 are in Kentucky. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post)

Life expectancy is rising overall in the United States, but in some areas, death rates are going conspicuously in the other direction. These geographical disparities are widening, according to a report published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Life expectancy is greatest in the high country of central Colorado, but in many pockets of the United States, life expectancy is more than 20 years lower, according to the report from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

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A new report from the National Research Council and In- stitute of Medicine (NRC/IOM) documents that US males and females in almost all age groups—up to age 75 years—have shorter life expectancies than their counterparts in 16 other wealthy, developed nations: Australia, Austria, Canada, Den- mark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Por- tugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The scope of the US health disadvantage is pervasive and involves more than life expectancy: the United States ranks at or near the bottom in both prevalence and mor- tality for multiple diseases, risk factors, and injuries.

http://web.missouri.edu/~segerti/3830/JAMA_OpEd.pdf

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