• Overview

Overview

• Authors: Anne Case & Sir Angus Deaton
• Type: Study

Mortality and morbidity in the 21st century

Professor of Economics and Public Affairs - Princeton University Senior Scholar and Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Emeritus - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

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Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century

Midlife increases in suicides and drug poisonings have been previously noted. However, that these upward trends were persistent and large enough to drive up all-cause midlife mortality has, to our knowledge, been overlooked. If the white mortality rate for ages 45−54 had held at their 1998 value, 96,000 deaths would have been avoided from 1999-2013, 7,000 in 2013 alone.

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