First Rise in U.S. Death Rate in Years Surprises Experts
Source: New York Times
WASHINGTON The death rate in the United States rose last year for the first time in a decade, preliminary federal data show, a rare increase that was driven in part by more people dying from drug overdoses, suicide and Alzheimers disease. The death rate from heart disease, long in decline, edged up slightly.
Death rates measured as the number of deaths per 100,000 people have been declining for years, an effect of improvements in health, disease management and medical technology.
While recent research has documented sharp rises in death rates among certain groups in particular less educated whites, who have been hardest hit by the prescription drug epidemic increases for the entire population are relatively rare.
Federal researchers cautioned that it was too early to tell whether the rising mortality among whites had pushed up the overall national death rate. (Preliminary data is not broken down by race, and final data will not be out until later this year.) But they said the rise was real, and while it is premature to ring an alarm now, if it continues, it could be a signal of distress in the health of the nation.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/01/health/american-death-rate-rises-for-first-time-in-a-decade.html?_r=0
No surprise here. The whole nation is slowing dying. Just look around you and watch some news that doesn't originate from our lame MSM.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)ditto violence--I can't count how many "downturns" in homicide Mexico, Central America, or Colombia have seen when there's an underlying problem generating it
Baobab
(4,667 posts)Public anger rising.
brentspeak
(18,290 posts)Meanwhile, the corporate media tells us we're in an "economic recovery".
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)In other words, if you're eating food today, it's not like food people ate in 1930. Stress comes in all forms, and that's a big one.
Population is a stress most people don't even pay attention to.
Then there's fake election; bad politicians; wars.
I don't know anyone who even enjoys life, let alone looks and acts like Dick Van Dyke. Those days are long gone.
former9thward
(31,806 posts)I enjoy everyday and people I know do the same.
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)I am currently heathy and happy and it could change in a second due to many factors you stated .
Also it takes money and time and purposeful avoidance /awareness which is not,unfortunately, available to all for a plethora of reasons
Runningdawg
(4,496 posts)add that to the fact that some can still not afford health care. Yes, they buy insurance but that hardly solves the problem. We have what is considered good insurance through my husbands job and even we have to save up for a copay if we need to see a Dr. Then we save up to fill a Rx if there is one. Drs may have dropped the "pre-existing condition" but they are finding new ways to get around it. Each year the deductible increases, the list of providers grows shorter and the wait time to see one grows longer.
The rise in the death rate has just started, it will keep growing.
ancianita
(35,816 posts)Boomers' medicare mitigates some of their death these days, but suicides and drug overdoses, no matter the health insurance, is hard to mitigate.
Boomers' death rates are a function of age. The other ages' deaths are more a function of pervasive system problems in this country.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)ancianita
(35,816 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)
doesn't make sense, I think.
There have always been older Americans dying.
I'm sure the death rate is indexed to the population rate, so that even though boomers expanded the birth rate back in the 40's, their death rate is relative to that.
Baobab
(4,667 posts)many people are seen by advertising, lobbyists and politicians as "dead weight" if they don't spend enough.
ananda
(28,783 posts)... and do have access to decent nutrition and healthcare.
TygrBright
(20,733 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Exceptionally poor in several key categories that determine quality of life.
FailureToCommunicate
(13,989 posts)A silver lining, if you could call it that, is a corresponding increase in organs available for transplant:
http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-87146209/
Baobab
(4,667 posts)once they are dead.
ancianita
(35,816 posts)Baobab
(4,667 posts)the profit has to be optimized.
Poor people can cause a lot of economic activity with their body parts. That's the 'most efficient' outcome.
ancianita
(35,816 posts)LongTomH
(8,636 posts)Age-adjusted rates are up this year: US Death Rate Rises, But Health Officials Aren't Sure Why:
bbgrunt
(5,281 posts)Moostache
(9,895 posts)People are dying more because we are NOT so super-duper star-spangled awesome as a nation.
We used to suck a lot less.
Now? We suck more...
Baobab
(4,667 posts)forever.
That's success.
We will soon be able to export the sick as well, won't that be great? Everybody out, nobody in. If you want to be healthy and wealthy, live in the US and spend your millions here, if you want to be sick, live in Nauru and be washed away by the next big storm.
The magic of the marketplace.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)Y'all will have start snorting way more oxy and rolling on lots more condoms if you want to bring that statistic down. It's shameful that in this day and age a large, modern nation like the US would have a positive birth rate.
PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)harrose
(380 posts)... it's no surprise. Every single ReThug should be tried as an accessory to murder for every extra person who dies because of them.
Baobab
(4,667 posts)not us. Blame them.