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Citation needed, if only because of the increased expense. Also, public heath care plays a massive role in opioids treatment and suicide prevention, at least in developed countries. What seems to be clear is, unless the issue if acknowledged, the US will continue to slide literally to developing countries life expectancy levels.
I wonder if I should be concerned. If I simply avoid opioids and suicide, I'm safe?
(On edit: below comment is retracted. At least for 2015 to 2016, the decline is not attributable to Simpson's paradox. See Table 4 in the CDC report linked below.) This is either incompetence or maliciousness on behalf of the CDC, WSJ, or both. Life expectancy in the US is falling, but it's only falling due to Simpson's Paradox [1]. The CDC's own data [2] shows life expectancy increasing for all genders and races exc…
From the document you posted: since 1990. • In 2016 compared with 2015, life expectancy decreased for non-Hispanic white males (0.2 year), non-Hispanic black males (0.4), non-Hispanic black females (0.2), Hispanic males (0.2), and Hispanic females (0.1). Life expectancy for non-Hispanic white females remained unchanged So, no, it's not just Simpson's paradox.
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I think you underestimate the amount of bad health environments there are in cities (anecdotal evidence only). I would not call most cities or working environments anywhere close to sterile.
Nor anything close to a spoonful of soil on the bank of a pond outside a city?
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I think you underestimate the amount of bad health environments there are in cities (anecdotal evidence only). I would not call most cities or working environments anywhere close to sterile.
To be honest, nobody is talking about very deadly exposure to pesticides in farmers populations. There actually have been papers published on that. While living outside a big city might be on average better for you, being a farmer is probably not.
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> The decline is mostly the product of an increase in drug overdose and suicides The US is pretty much also the only country where suicides are increasing.
Are there other countries where the news media is as hell-bent on stoking the fires of craziness and painting the world as a horrible, horrible place full only of strife and despair?
The world definitevely needs to move past GDP as key metric to evaluate success of a nation.
Can someone explain the link of the lowered life expectancy to flu and pneumonia? I thought that these were deceases that were only fatal for people with compromised immunity.
Drug overdose and abuse seem to me to be a symptom of something way more troubling. I can't help but feel like there is a sense of uselessness felt by and toward a large population in the US and rather than lift them up we are letting them be snuffed out.
Also see anomie [1]
The world definitevely needs to move past GDP as key metric to evaluate success of a nation.
Comments like this just scream America hating and serve to inflame, they don't contribute to a substantive conversation.
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Nor anything close to a spoonful of soil on the bank of a pond outside a city?
Actually: lots of people bring a lot of diseases with them, so it you judge by germs, I would argue a city with buses, train stations, airports and harbors would be worse than any soil outside of it. Though it says nothing about food, can't argue there. Though (from experience) "farmers" tend not to be too broad in their nutritional uptake and eat mostly the same where I come from as people in the cities. Might be di…
I grew up muddy and dirty, eating anything I found in nature that was mostly edible (apples, ground cherries, berries, chewing bark and grass), as well as organic beef and pork (before we knew what that meant) and garden vegetables. That was closer to historical experience.