Very, very confounded correlations study. Given the greater prevalence of schizophrenia in urban dwellers and the negative effects of air pollution we have pret

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