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Nope. > Life expectancy was inversely related to levels of rurality. In 2005-2009, those in large metropolitan areas had a life expectancy of 79.1 years, compa

by piker 7y ago

Nope. > Life expectancy was inversely related to levels of rurality. In 2005-2009, those in large metropolitan areas had a life expectancy of 79.1 years, compared with 76.9 years in small urban towns and 76.7 years in rural areas. When stratified by gender, race, and income, life expectancy ranged from 67.7 years among poor black men in nonmetropolitan areas to 89.6 among poor Asian/Pacific Islander women in metropolitan areas. Rural-urban disparities widened over time. In 1969-1971, life expectancy was 0.4 years longer in metropolitan than in nonmetropolitan areas (70.9 vs 70.5 years). By 2005-2009, the life expectancy difference had increased to 2.0 years (78.8 vs 76.8 years). The rural poor and rural blacks currently experience survival probabilities that urban rich and urban whites enjoyed 4 decades earlier. Causes of death contributing most to the increasing rural-urban disparity and lower life expectancy in rural areas include heart disease, unintentional injuries, COPD, lung cancer, stroke, suicide, and diabetes. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24439358 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24439358

barry-cotter 7y ago
Very, very confounded correlations study. Given the greater prevalence of schizophrenia in urban dwellers and the negative effects of air pollution we have pretty strong reasons to suspect urban living is less healthy than rural living. But in a modern economy the highly educated and high socioeconomic status people who are disproportionately healthy will almost all live in urban areas. Correlational studies are only ever suggestive. All of these are due to behaviour, not environment. > Causes of death contributing most to the increasing rural-urban disparity and lower life expectancy in rural areas include heart disease Diet > unintentional injuries Working on a farm is ludicrously dangerous > COPD, lung cancer Rural people are poorer and poorer people smoke nope > stroke Diet > suicide Comparatively easy access to guns and poisons > and diabetes Diet

by piker 7y ago

barry-cotter 7y ago

Very, very confounded correlations study. Given the greater prevalence of schizophrenia in urban dwellers and the negative effects of air pollution we have pretty strong reasons to suspect urban living is less healthy than rural living. But in a modern economy the highly educated and high socioeconomic status people who are disproportionately healthy will almost all live in urban areas. Correlational studies are only ever suggestive. All of these are due to behaviour, not environment. > Causes of death contributing most to the increasing rural-urban disparity and lower life expectancy in rural areas include heart disease Diet > unintentional injuries Working on a farm is ludicrously dangerous > COPD, lung cancer Rural people are poorer and poorer people smoke nope > stroke Diet > suicide Comparatively easy access to guns and poisons > and diabetes Diet