{"id":18462,"date":"2022-07-15T09:58:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T07:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=18462"},"modified":"2022-07-15T09:58:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T07:58:47","slug":"why-is-life-expectancy-in-the-us-lower-than-in-other-rich-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/?p=18462","title":{"rendered":"Why is life expectancy in the US lower than in other rich countries?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/us-life-expectancy-low\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Max Roser, Our World in Data<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: inherit;\">Why do Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries, despite paying so much more for health care?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif; font-size: inherit;\">The short summary of what I will discuss below is that Americans suffer higher death rates from smoking, obesity, homicides, opioid overdoses, suicides, road accidents, and infant deaths. In addition to this, deeper poverty and less access to healthcare mean Americans at lower incomes die at a younger age than poor people in other rich countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/us-life-expectancy-low\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-18463 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/LE-vs-Health-Exp-2020-version.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1874\" height=\"2042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/LE-vs-Health-Exp-2020-version.png 1874w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/LE-vs-Health-Exp-2020-version-275x300.png 275w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/LE-vs-Health-Exp-2020-version-138x150.png 138w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/LE-vs-Health-Exp-2020-version-768x837.png 768w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/LE-vs-Health-Exp-2020-version-1410x1536.png 1410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1874px) 100vw, 1874px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Roser, Our World in Data: Why do Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries, despite paying so much more for health care? The short summary of what I will discuss below is that Americans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/?p=18462\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}