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City's Health Initiatives Lead to All-Time Highest Life Expectancy of 80.9 Years; Infant Mortality Rate Falls to All-Time Low of 4.7 deaths per 1,000 Live Births
By the same logic, one infant’s dying during childbirth—77.8 years too early—is equal to ten people’s succumbing to lung cancer at age 70. It is a very weird form of horse trading. The more you’re able to prevent young people—folks in their twenties and thirties—from dying, the more rapidly you boost a city’s overall life expectancy.
That's why I prefer to think of the life expectancy of ADULTS. Takes infant mortality out of the equation.
For example, if you are 30, the life expectancy of 30 year olds is more germaine than the life expectancy of a newborn.
If you are measuring the effectiveness of medical care perhaps the life expectancy of 50 year olds is the most useful figure.
If you take survival during childhood out of the picture, there hasn't been much change in the survival age of adults in a couple centuries.
I would have to disagree. More people are living longer. It isn't just infant mortality skewing the statistics. From improved medical technology to healthy lifestyles, more people are living longer/healthier lives.
not really kiddo,
Even in my own family, my grandparents (oldest two born in the 1870's) lived to older lives than their children (a HUGE sample.)
We keep hearing about the increasing life expectancy but that is a primarily a result of kids not dying from polio, diphtheria, cholera, typhoid, typhus, rheumatic fever, mumps, influenza.
Once you make your 60's, deaths by cancer, heart disease, obesity, diabletes might likely be staring at you the same as always or even WORSE today. In fact, before 1950 did Type 2 Diabetes, epidemic today, even EXIST except as a footnote in a medical text. And of course, there is always HIV/AIDS to consider.
Medical technology is naturally hyped by those peddling it...there's less there than meets the eye.
If life expectancy of adults is increasing, it is doing so only at a minimal rate.
Last edited by Kefir King; 12-17-2012 at 06:35 AM..
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Criminals can't afford to live in NYC, and criminals find it too hard to drive into/out of NYC.
You bring up a very good point. May be our mayor is doing the right thing to make NYC less car friendly. Broadway is becoming narrow way with tables and chairs in the middle.
Criminals can't afford to live in NYC, and criminals find it too hard to drive into/out of NYC.
GOOD criminals have no trouble living on Fifth, Madison, or Park Avenues.
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