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The trends examined by UPenn researches in the paper [0] from my first link span from 1990-2016, vs. that CDC report's 3-year span. From the paper: "We focus o
by _iyig 7y ago
The trends examined by UPenn researches in the paper [0] from my first link span from 1990-2016, vs. that CDC report's 3-year span. From the paper:
"We focus on non‐Hispanic whites because their mortality trends were particularly adverse in the last decade and differ from those of non‐Hispanic Blacks and Hispanics.
In contrast to non‐Hispanic whites, mortality has continued to decline among Hispanics and non‐Hispanic Blacks, although death rates remain substantially higher for Blacks than for whites (Harper, MacLehose, and Kaufman 2014; Murphy et al. 2017; Stein et al. 2017). The underlying mechanisms driving mortality trends for non‐Hispanic whites are fundamentally different from those driving trends for other racial/ethnic groups, as suggested by James and Cossman (2017)."
[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/padr.12249 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/padr.12249
- todd8 7y agoThe CDC report[1] has data that spans the years 2006-2016, eleven years not three. However, all racial groups have greater life expectancy now that they did in 2006. I was specifically addressing the comment's statement that "The decline in U.S. life expectancy has disproportionately affected whites". The CDC report seems to disagree. Specifically looking at declines: the highest white life expectancy is in 2012 and the highest black life expectancy occurred in 2014: 2012 white 78.9 years 2014 black 75.3 years 2016 white 78.5 (-0.4, a 0.51% decline) 2016 black 74.8 (-0.5, a 0.67% decline) Black life expectancy appears to have declined more (an even bigger concern to me is the absolute disparity between white and black life expectancy). [1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus17.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus17.pdf
- _iyig 7y agoSorry, I'd assumed your first comment which diffed 2013 and 2016 was a comprehensive summary. Now it looks like we're shifting the brackets around, and I'm not sure where the goalposts are. I'll defer to the study in my original link.