CSPAN3 Dr. Steven Woolf July 13, 2024
Life expectancy continues to fall. What is this distinctly american phenomenon that you found . Well, mortality rates are not supposed to be going up for the past century and most wealthy countries, the u. S. Included, weve seen our Life Expectancy in the u. S. , the mortality is supposed to be going down, but it is backwards. What we have seen is the death rates in the working age population increasing, and reversing years of progress that we have made in improving the health. What is behind the study . Why did you do it . Well, our center of society and health at vcu studies the Population H...