life expectancy

  1. Occams Barber

    COVID-19 & U.S. Life Expectancy

    COVID-19 & U.S. Life Expectancy Compared to peer countries, U.S. life expectancy has been consistently dropping over, at least, the last decade. A new study estimates that life expectancy in the U.S. decreased by nearly two years between 2018 and 2020, largely due to direct and indirect results...
  2. М

    Is it true?

    I want to apologise for my bad English. I’m currently in rush. Yesterday I was diagnosed with chronic pancreatitis. I am only 17 years of age. I will go straight. I wrote some terrible stuff online. I want to know if this is true. - The overall survival rate is 70% at 10 years and 45% at 20...
  3. Dave-W

    The U.S. is the only rich country in the world where the mortality rate has been going up, not down

    Much of that trend is driven by men without college degrees in America’s heartland, according to Brookings. “Significant sectors of our society are dying prematurely from preventable deaths (deaths of despair) and almost 20% of prime aged males are out of the labor force,” according to a recent...
  4. SummerMadness

    Something Happened to U.S. Health Spending After 1980

    Something Happened to U.S. Health Spending After 1980