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Americans on average engage in riskier and unhealthier behaviors than people in similarly developed countries. It is unfair to place the full blame on the medic
by pg_bot 7y ago
Americans on average engage in riskier and unhealthier behaviors than people in similarly developed countries. It is unfair to place the full blame on the medical system for lower life spans when they are not causing them.
The people with the highest life expectancy in the world are Asian-Americans living in NJ.
- SketchySeaBeast 7y ago> Americans on average engage in riskier and unhealthier behaviors than people in similarly developed countries. It is unfair to place the full blame on the medical system for lower life spans when they are not causing them. Do you have numbers for these claims? What risk taking behaviour is the entire US doing that other countries are not? >The people with the highest life expectancy in the world are Asian-Americans living in NJ. And does that group represent the socio-economic gamut? While you're correlating race, I wonder if it ends up being reducible to something like "upper-middle class individuals who don't smoke or drink".
- pg_bot 7y agoAmericans are far more obese than people in comparable countries. We also drive a lot more than our counterparts. (Driving is likely the riskiest activity you do every day) That group represents about a million people but I don't have detailed enough information to claim that it is not skewed. https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/two-maps-and-one-graph-comparing-obesity-in-america-and-europe https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/two-maps-and-one-graph-com...
- dtwest 7y agoThis is an interesting point. Do you have a source for the life expectancy numbers? I'm genuinely curious.