Life expectancy

Recent research reveals a widening gap in life expectancy between American men and women, now at its largest since 1996. The COVID-19 pandemic, opioid overdose epidemic, and other factors like accidents and suicide have contributed to this disparity. The study suggests the need for specialized healthcare, particularly in mental health for men, and stresses the importance of future research and public health interventions to reverse this declining trend.Analysis reveals that COVID-19 and increasing ‘deaths of despair’…

A new study shows that older individuals who engage in long-term financial planning have a lower risk of death, suggesting a link between proactive financial habits and improved health outcomes, particularly for those with lower socioeconomic status.Long-term planning could be especially advantageous for the health of individuals with limited financial means.Individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds often face reduced life expectancies, a situation influenced by various factors like limited healthcare spending and…

By our calculations, that is the number of extra deaths Britain has suffered, compared with similar countries such as France and Denmark. The reason is that, in the early 2010s, life expectancy stalled in Britain compared with long-run trends and other countries. This slowdown in life expectancy struck all age groups, not just the elderly. And it disproportionately affected the poor. If you travel just 10km (six miles) from the poshest part of Kensington in London to New Cross Gate, life expectancy for men…

Being poor is a major leading cause of death in America, new research suggests. The study’s authors estimate that there were roughly 180,000 poverty-related deaths among people over the age of 15 in 2019—a total only surpassed by deaths from heart disease, cancer, and smoking that year.Maybe AI-Written Scripts are a Bad Idea?Poverty has long been known to be an important risk factor for poor health and early death. Those struggling to make ends meet are more likely to live in places with unclean air and water and will…

Sometime today, November 15, the 8 billionth human on Earth is projected to be born. It could be happening right now, as I write this (or you read this). Or maybe it happened hours ago. But regardless of the exact second, today we officially enter a world with an estimated 8 billion people in it, according to a new report from the United Nations.It’s the first time we’ve added a full billion people since 2011, when humanity reached the 7 billion mark. And things have slowed down from there. The rate of global population…

Photo: Nick Laham / Allsport (Getty Images)Ryan Petersen, the CEO of a logistics tech company called Flexport, tweeted out a photo that went viral Monday, purporting to show a time when McDonald’s used supposedly healthier cooking methods. Petersen suggested the people from this allegedly ancient photo were much healthier than the people of 2022, insinuating it’s because they weren’t consuming seed oils, a currentboogeyman in the diet world. But just about everything in Petersen’s tweet is wrong or misleading.“This…