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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.
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"