The Social Determinants of Health and the Decline in U.S. Life Expectancy: Implications for Appalachia

For the past century, life expectancy in industrialized countries has increased, and the U.S. has shared in that progress. However, beginning in the 1980s, advances in U.S. life expectancy began to lose pace with peer countries. By 1998, U.S. life expectancy had fallen below the average for Organisa...

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Autores principales: Woolf, Steven H., Schoomaker, Heidi, Hill, Latoya, Orndahl, Christine M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: The University of Kentucky 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9173599/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35769540
http://dx.doi.org/10.13023/jah.0101.02
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description For the past century, life expectancy in industrialized countries has increased, and the U.S. has shared in that progress. However, beginning in the 1980s, advances in U.S. life expectancy began to lose pace with peer countries. By 1998, U.S. life expectancy had fallen below the average for Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development nations. U.S. life expectancy peaked in 2014 and has been decreasing for three consecutive years, a trend not been seen since the influenza pandemic a century ago. Put simply, U.S. health is in decline.
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spelling pubmed-91735992022-06-28 The Social Determinants of Health and the Decline in U.S. Life Expectancy: Implications for Appalachia Woolf, Steven H. Schoomaker, Heidi Hill, Latoya Orndahl, Christine M. J Appalach Health Commentary For the past century, life expectancy in industrialized countries has increased, and the U.S. has shared in that progress. However, beginning in the 1980s, advances in U.S. life expectancy began to lose pace with peer countries. By 1998, U.S. life expectancy had fallen below the average for Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development nations. U.S. life expectancy peaked in 2014 and has been decreasing for three consecutive years, a trend not been seen since the influenza pandemic a century ago. Put simply, U.S. health is in decline. The University of Kentucky 2019-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9173599/ /pubmed/35769540 http://dx.doi.org/10.13023/jah.0101.02 Text en Copyright © 2019 Steven H. Woolf, Heidi Schoomaker, Latoya Hill, and Christine M. Orndahl https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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