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US Life Expectancy Falls Further (cnn.com)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday released data that shows life expectancy fell by one-tenth of a year, to 78.6 years (Warning: source paywalled; alternative source), pushed down by the sharpest annual increase in suicide in nearly a decade and a continued rise in deaths from opioid drugs. "Influenza, pneumonia and diabetes also factored into last year's increase," The Wall Street Journal adds. From the report: Economists and public-health experts consider life expectancy to be an important measure of a nation's prosperity. The 2017 data paint a dark picture of health and well-being in the U.S., reflecting the effects of addiction and despair, particularly among young and middle-aged adults, as well as diseases plaguing an aging population and people with lower access to health care. The U.S. has lost three-tenths of a year in life expectancy since 2014, a stunning reversal for a developed nation, and lags far behind other wealthy nations. Life expectancy is 84.1 years in Japan and 83.7 years in Switzerland, first and second in the most-recent ranking by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The U.S. ranks 29th.
White men and women fared the worst, along with black men, all of whom experienced increases in death rates. Death rates rose in particular for adults ages 25 to 44, and suicide rates are highest among people in the nation's most rural areas. On the other hand, deaths declined for black and Hispanic women, and remained the same for Hispanic men. As drug and suicide mortality has risen, deaths from heart disease, the nation's leading killer, went down only slightly, failing to offset the increases in mortality from other causes and prolonging another worrisome trend.
White men and women fared the worst, along with black men, all of whom experienced increases in death rates. Death rates rose in particular for adults ages 25 to 44, and suicide rates are highest among people in the nation's most rural areas. On the other hand, deaths declined for black and Hispanic women, and remained the same for Hispanic men. As drug and suicide mortality has risen, deaths from heart disease, the nation's leading killer, went down only slightly, failing to offset the increases in mortality from other causes and prolonging another worrisome trend.
Long working hours, stress due to stupid societal expectations, bullying via social media, poor health care unless you have a cush job ... they all have consequences.
In Russia, liver cirrhosis and lung cancer are natural causes.
It is more like a religious backwater country. Yes there are patches of developed, say California or NewYork but the rest..
Cast them out and it shoots right on up! Those people are very, Very, VERY STUPID!
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The enormous difference between age-adjusted death rate of Whites and Hispanics is surprising.
White males are dying at a 40% higher rate than Hispanics (age adjusted of course.)
This is about the same as the gender gap in death rate, which starts from birth. Males are much more likely to die in cots, or as toddlers in pools.
Is the racial gap across life like that, or appearing in middle age from diet-related disease?
Do the English-speaking children and grandchildren of Hispanic immigrants maintain that advantage if they live a mainstream American lifestyle?
i.e. nature or nurture?
"White men and women fared the worst" Woah, you cant say that!
How many decades since the 1950's have top expert tried to work heart conditions out?
With all the worlds top epidemiologist , diet tracking, decades of long term health studies?
How to make your nation not sick again.
Study the advanced nations that are not sick all the time.
Stop letting people wonder around with known contagious conditions. Stop letting people into a nation with really expensive and untreatable contagious conditions.
That should slow the random and unexpected spread of expensive medical conditions.
Find out why the same medical problems keep on adding up every decade and every generation.
Free charity health care exists. Doctors are still graduating on merit with advanced skills so the medical care is still of good quality all over the USA.
The academic side and treatment side is still good. Why the numbers of new random sick people wondering around?
The US still has the generations of experts who can track medical conditions and publish their findings. The real origins and spread of complex medical conditions should not be a total mystery per city/state/federally.
Create a kind of software map or GUI to zoom in on problem city and areas? List all the conditions and work out why?
Should be a nice big grant and publication in that.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
The good news is the end appears to be coming, and with a quickness.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I just checked and I'm still alive. Once agan corelation does NOT equal causation and scientist wonders why no one believes them any more.
You either live long enough to go bankrupt from the out of control US healthcare system
or you die young without ever having to experience the horrors of how this country treats
its elderly.
Personally, I think I would prefer the latter over the former.
( and I'm closer in age to the latter than the former )
I was sad when it was Princess Leia.
The CNN article does not mention gun deaths - it is a major contributor to unintentional death and suicide.
[US] life expectancy fell by one-tenth of a year, to 78.6 years
One tenth of a year was the difference between USA and the 50 years embargoed Cuba in WHO 2015 study.
For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.
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It's a great start!
30k deaths in 2017 from fentanyl overdose, most of it coming from China. And rates are growing exponentially.
There's lots of cancer cures now, cancer is no longer the absolute death sentence it once was. Heart disease? Just ask Dick Cheney if they can fix it.... yeh they can. You blamed immigrants bringing "untreatable contagious conditions". What disease exactly? "heart disease"?? "Suicide"?
Lots of cures for lots of diseases, but healthcare has been de-funded, and large parts of Obamacare have been undermined, and you cannot afford it because you are old and have existing preconditions.
Lots of cures for lots of diseases, BUT NOT FOR YOU.
Of the two countries with the longest lifespans:
Switzerland has compulsary healthcare insurance, aka Obamacare.
Japan has 70%/30 state/compulsary private insurance.
It's not immigrants that bring the problem, the Republican party is home grown. Fox News is a *domestic* propaganda outfit. I's not immigrants that defunds Obamacare.
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As life expectancy goes down, the possibility that social security will work goes up. The less people who can claim the benefits means more money to fewer survivors. Grim, but it's the truth.
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American life expectancy has for years (since I've been following it) trailed most developed nations, according to the OECD (https://www.oecd.org/els/family/CO_1_2_Life_expectancy_at_birth.pdf). Kind of goes along with paying more than any other country in the world for healthcare (https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm), and having poor showings in most measures of public health (https://data.oecd.org/health.htm#profile-Health%20status). Add income inequality (1% vs. 99%) and income stagnation for the Rest Of Us, with suicide and drug abuse increases and life expectancy decreases? Not in the least surprising.
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You wish. In fact it's the gun-owning rural conservatives who are committing suicide in growing numbers. From TFA:
This also goes some way to explaining why the declining life-expectancy is a white thing.
What's sad about this is the sole reason for the lowering is the large increase in drug overdoses.
If we would just legalize drug use we could ensure people got help they needed instead of hiding the problem for fear of being arrested... and get safer drugs to boot.
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1. The CDC data says the cause is suicide, you did not mention suicide.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6714a6.htm
2. You blended this with "males vs female" cot deaths, as if suicide is a disease white people catch.
IMHO, its simply culture, you don't get a lot of people sitting at home, alone, in a gated community, with nothing but TV and Facebook to keep them company in latino cultures. You get annoying families and their annoying friends and annoying children and annoying parties and annoying communal eating and group social cultures.... and perhaps they're not that annoying after all. It could be worse, you could be alone with only an XBox as your friend in some bleak housing estate in a house you can barely afford.
https://projects.fivethirtyeig...
General stats are in a positive trend. And if you break down the data by cause of death, most of the negative things are highly concentrated in a few troubled communities. The overall statistics are pretty solid.
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USA numbers are bad because of the underclass of uninsured and un cared for people.
But slash dot readers are middle class (despite their wingeing). and I think you will find that middle class Americans do just fine.
Just don't ever get poor.
Hopefully this applies to the Trump and he will be nothing but a fading nightmare in about 4 years.
Is a product of poor education and poor diet. The areas affected suffer both.
Poor genetic health is a factor, with urban communities typically having better genes, but that would be overwhelmed by diet and education.
America's he-man culture and lack of functioning health service (mental health is virtually absent, synthetic opium is handed out like candy by doctors to make up for it) are other major blunders.
And remember this is an average life expectancy, it's different for men and women. Men tend to live shorter lifespans. And it's male lifespans that are falling fastest.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
The middle class is dying. And the bulk of people I've worked for were unhealthy slobs who will die stupidly young.
The air pollution around Portland, OR - home of the middle class, or at least theur books - is replete with heavy metals such as mercury. And restrictions are being lifted. It will get worse.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
I think you mean "logistic" growth, for the population is finite, and therefore the population of drug users, and therefore the number of drug deaths. You can't have 400 mio fentanyl overdose deaths on a population of 320 mio, and some people just never take up the drug use. So you simply cannot have your exponential growth.
Yup, obama's genocidal campaign against rural "traitors" worked well. The cost of not voting (D) after seeing the bankers sell their jobs to China was expensive.
Well, they sound like a bunch of losers, so good riddance. America is for winners.
There's no such thing as "middle class".
There's only the capitalist owning class, and everyone else who must sell their labor to live.
"Middle class" is just a propaganda term to win favor from the slightly wealthier working class.
The thing about gun-owning rural people is that they've got, well, guns.
Looking into the numbers more it seems the attempted suicide rate is about the same. Just those with guns are much, much more successful.
With Trump in the White House who wants to live?
Suicides went up the most among elderly rural males. In other words, Republicans. These people should be the happiest with Trump.
Perhaps they would be if he'd do what he said he'd do. How's that resurgence in coal going? "Promises made. Promises Kept."?
Seriously, what did they expect from a grifter?
We were also told one of the reasons we HAD to pass Obamacare was because of this stat.
Here it is passed, and that stat gets worse. Once more lie in the quiver of things Obamacare was supposed to fix. Did it accomplish ANYTHING besides getting Obama's buddies in the insurance companies richer at the expense of the middle class?
Worrying about paying our high taxes, grief over the MILLIONS of babies murdered every year, inability to practise your religius beleifs freely, etc.
Itâ(TM)s no mystery why: rural workers and blue collar workers are being increasingly replaced by low cost migrant workers and cheap Chinese imports, so they are hardest hit.
See if the number of infant mortality was increasing that would explain it, but they have stayed stable or lower slightly. Therefore while this can explain an *offset* between USA and other OECD country, it cannot explain the trend. Furthermore even as an offset, it is incredibly low and cannot account for such a huge discrepancy : infant mortality even with those "lowered" rates are 3 per live birth in Germany and 6 per live birth in USA. That cannot account for the discrepancy in average life expectancy difference : 1.7 years that would require far more than 3 more baby per live birth to drop an average of 1.7 years over 300 million people (hint : 3 more death of baby per 1000, so about 12000 baby death per year, so per cohort at most I come with a gap of about between 1 and 2 month of contribution. That still leaves you 18 month to explain and baby death will not do that).
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And yet Canadians can expect to live ~5 years longer than USians: https://www.statista.com/stati...
One site says 1/4 of Americans use drugs that increase suicide risk. HELLO, could it be the fucking big pharma bastards killing people off?!
"Hey are you depressed and want some medicine to feel better? Here take this, it makes you care about nothing, including your own life."
Pretty sure some illegal drugs do the same damn thing. People need to stop taking shit and go outside more, hang with your family more, be a normal human more.
https://www.vox.com/science-an...
https://www.drugwatch.com/ssri...
It's close. (in the USA) Heart disease killed about 800,000 in 2017, but there were 880,000 abortions. It used to be close to 1.4 million/yr, so that's good progress.
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"lack of regular steady jobs that allow you to have a reasonably well planned life"
I work with a bunch of people that have above average salaries and excellent job security. Many of us have been here for over a decade - a few are near 20 years.
We also have excellent healthcare benefits.
The crazy thing is that much of our staff is very unhealthy. The average BMI here is well north of 25 and probably closer to 30.
A regular steady job with good healthcare benefits is no guarantee of good health and lifestyle. Frankly, most of the labor/tradespeople I interact with are in far better shape despite less pay, longer - less predictable hours, and lower quality benefits.
US numbers are bad because we've imported significant digits of malnourished third-worlders.
Magic dirt doesn't translate to longevity after the fact.
Basically expressing concurrence (or some form of solidarity?) with this comment and some others you've made, but I don't (ever) have any mod points to give you. [I've stopped wondering why no mod points. Just one more aspect of the broken and incurable state of Slashdot in general and the moderation in particular.]
However it takes years for new causes to affect mortality statistics and therefore I think it is too soon to blame #PresidentTweety, even though I agree he is a YUGE source of unnecessary stress. I'm certain that I would be quite unhappy if I were trapped in a reality TV show, but this surreality show, even without the TV, is really starting to get to me.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Then let's find the right website. My cousin recently graduated from university and is seeking a first job, but most job postings in his combination of field (computer science) and location (Fort Wayne, Indiana) require a degree plus two years of related experience. He told me that he doubts that, say, working at a Wendy's restaurant for two years would qualify as "related" enough. What website should he be looking at? Or should he instead be asking the HR department of each company seeking experienced workers where other successful candidates have earned their two years of related experience?
The suburbs and rural living kill you now. Both are completely car dependent now. That wasn't true 30 years ago. New subdivisions are designed so that you do all your shopping in big box stores. You don't walk anywhere and you barely even talk to your neighbours. It would make most kids suicidal or drug addicts. The rural areas lost their youth to cities, their local stores to the big box stores and their sense of community. The USA might claim an unemployment of under 4% but a better number to look at is the work force participation rate for white males between 20 and 44. It's only 83%. That's abysmal. The USA is getting very sticky as far as moving. New immigrants are willing to move for work but existing people in rural areas are not. As a result many have given up on finding work so they don't count as unemployed. We need to change our urban planning so people can live in cities and be neighbours again. Otherwise more of us will be going to the funerals of our children.