The authors compared US life expectancy and causes of death from 1999 to 2023 with 16 other high-income countries. The United States ranked 38th in 2023, with rising deaths below middle age from drug overdose, alcohol, homicide, suicide and cardiometabolic disease. They attribute the widening gap to the health care system, socioeconomic conditions, the physical and social environment, and public policy.
Why it is interesting: Brings cross-national comparison and state politics into one account of US deaths before middle age.
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