Category Archives: Life Expectancy

Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health (The Atlantic)

Posted on December 28, 2018.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/being-black-in-america-can-be-hazardous-to-your-health/561740/

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Progress In Achieving Health Equity Requires Attention (Health Affairs)

Posted on November 18, 2017.

http://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2017.0197  

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Population Health & rising income inequality (Lancet)

Posted on October 28, 2017.

http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(17)30571-8.pdf

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Health-Related Behaviors by Urban-Rural County Classification (CDC)

Posted on October 23, 2017.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/ss/ss6605a1.htm

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The Shortening American Lifespan (Commonwealth Fund)

Posted on October 21, 2017.

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/blog/2017/jan/shortening-american-lifespan

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In America, the rich outlive the poor by up to 9.5 years, study says (News Observer)

Posted on October 21, 2017.

http://www.newsobserver.com/latest-news/article115507143.html

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U.S. life expectancy declines for the first time since 1993 (WaPo)

Posted on October 21, 2017.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/us-life-expectancy-declines-for-the-first-time-since-1993/2016/12/07/7dcdc7b4-bc93-11e6-91ee-1adddfe36cbe_story.html?utm_term=.e123f9d93c3b

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Health Care’s Role in Addressing Structural Violence

Posted on January 1, 2017.

https://rushinperson.rush.edu/2016/05/16/expanding-health-cares-mission-to-address-structural-violence/

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