Life expectancy is rising generally in America, but some areas have seen death rates going conspicuously in the other direction, according to a report by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. A baby born in Summit County, Colorado has a life expectancy of nearly 87 years, but in some counties the life expectancy is more than 20 years lower, coming close to that in impoverished and war-torn countries such as Iraq or Sudan.
| |  | | Democracy Dies in Darkness | | | | | | Health Alert | Mon., May. 08, 2017 11:03 a.m. | | | | | | U.S. life expectancy rates differ by more than 20 years between some counties, the largest discrepancy since the 1980s | Life expectancy is rising generally in America, but some areas have seen death rates going conspicuously in the other direction, according to a report by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. A baby born in Summit County, Colorado has a life expectancy of nearly 87 years, but in some counties the life expectancy is more than 20 years lower, coming close to that in impoverished and war-torn countries such as Iraq or Sudan. | | Read more » | | | |
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