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Saw this on a news feed
Surprising as NC is part of trump country and yet turned down medicaid expansion for it citizens which would have helped
Middle-aged whites are dying at an unprecedented rate in NC, an ECU study says
The most dramatic increases to the mortality rate for midlife whites were found in North Carolina’s poorest counties.
“The poor get sick, the sick get poorer,” Mansfield said in the ECU report. “There’s an economics circumstance, that’s for sure … the relationship between poverty or income and health. And we see it play out on the effect on health most in the poorest counties.”
Mansfield – who authored the study with Department of Public Health colleagues – said that what makes it more interesting is that while the death rate for North Carolina whites rose by about 6 percent over the past 13 years, the rate for non-whites decreased by 30 percent.
The death rate by 2020 for middle-aged whites is expected to rise by another 9.1 percent as it decreases for non-whites by 47 percent, the study said.
The study noted that the overall, national life expectancy rate peaked in 2012, at 78.8 years. It has since slipped to 78.6.
Middle-aged whites are dying at an unprecedented rate in NC, an ECU study says
Surprising as NC is part of trump country and yet turned down medicaid expansion for it citizens which would have helped
Middle-aged whites are dying at an unprecedented rate in NC, an ECU study says
The most dramatic increases to the mortality rate for midlife whites were found in North Carolina’s poorest counties.
“The poor get sick, the sick get poorer,” Mansfield said in the ECU report. “There’s an economics circumstance, that’s for sure … the relationship between poverty or income and health. And we see it play out on the effect on health most in the poorest counties.”
Mansfield – who authored the study with Department of Public Health colleagues – said that what makes it more interesting is that while the death rate for North Carolina whites rose by about 6 percent over the past 13 years, the rate for non-whites decreased by 30 percent.
The death rate by 2020 for middle-aged whites is expected to rise by another 9.1 percent as it decreases for non-whites by 47 percent, the study said.
The study noted that the overall, national life expectancy rate peaked in 2012, at 78.8 years. It has since slipped to 78.6.
Middle-aged whites are dying at an unprecedented rate in NC, an ECU study says
