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ericadawn16Life expectancy of U.S. women slips in some regions
This is such an important article:
The widening gulf between the healthiest and least healthy populations is partly due to wealth. A key finding of the data is that "inequality appears to be growing in the U.S.," said Eileen Crimmins, a gerontologist at USC who also co-chaired the 2011 National Academies panel on life expectancies. "We are different than other countries."
Researchers found substantially fewer geographic disparities in Great Britain, Canada and Japan, for example.
An additional explanation appears to be cultural norms and differences in public health efforts, the researchers found.
Communities with large immigrant populations — Southern California, for example — fared considerably better than average despite relatively high poverty rates. The worst-performing counties were clustered primarily in Appalachia, the Deep South and the lower Midwest. In those places, women died as much as a year younger in 2007 than women did a decade earlier. Life expectancy for women slipped 2 1/2 years in Madison County, Miss., which recorded the biggest regression.
Read more here:
http://www.latimes.com/health/la-na-womens-health-20110615,0,6790340.story
This is such an important article:
The widening gulf between the healthiest and least healthy populations is partly due to wealth. A key finding of the data is that "inequality appears to be growing in the U.S.," said Eileen Crimmins, a gerontologist at USC who also co-chaired the 2011 National Academies panel on life expectancies. "We are different than other countries."
Researchers found substantially fewer geographic disparities in Great Britain, Canada and Japan, for example.
An additional explanation appears to be cultural norms and differences in public health efforts, the researchers found.
Communities with large immigrant populations — Southern California, for example — fared considerably better than average despite relatively high poverty rates. The worst-performing counties were clustered primarily in Appalachia, the Deep South and the lower Midwest. In those places, women died as much as a year younger in 2007 than women did a decade earlier. Life expectancy for women slipped 2 1/2 years in Madison County, Miss., which recorded the biggest regression.
Read more here:
http://www.latimes.com/health/la-na-womens-health-20110615,0,6790340.story
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Date: 2011-06-21 11:22 am (UTC)Somewhat related (in that the disparity in this country is growing) article about one of the major causes for income disparity growing: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/with-executive-pay-rich-pull-away-from-rest-of-america/2011/06/13/AGKG9jaH_story.html?hpid=z1 (I went to high school with one of the economists who worked on this.)
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Date: 2011-06-21 03:08 pm (UTC)I can think of a few 'politicans' who would beneifit from acquaintanceship with a ballocks knife. *snerk*