Posted on 04/05/2013 9:20:41 PM PDT by blam
This Map Of US Female Mortality Will Break Your Heart
Grace Wyler
Apr. 5, 2013, 6:31 PM
In a speech at the Women In The World summit Friday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton mentioned a startling fact:
Women in the U.S. are living shorter lives than women in almost every other industrialized country. And worse yet, female mortality rates are actually rising in many parts of the country.
"Think about it for a minute. We are the richest and most powerful country in the world," Clinton said. "Yet many American women today are living shorter lives than their mothers, especially those with the least education. That is a historic reversal that rivals the decline in life expectancy for Russian men after the disintegration of the Soviet Union."
We looked into Clinton's claims, and it appears she is correct.
A study published last month by the Journal of Health Affairs found that between 1992-96 and 2002-06, the number of premature deaths actually rose for women in some parts of the country
The research, conducted by David Kindig and Erika Cheng of the University of Wisconsin, found that nationally the female mortality rate fell from 324 to 318 per 100,000 during that period.
But in 42.3 percent of counties, the female mortality rate rose, from 317 to about 333 per 100,000. Male mortality rates, by contrast, rose in only about 3 percent of counties.
Check out the map below, via Bill Gardner at the Incidental Economist. Red means that mortality worsened.
Bill Gardner
As Clinton noted in her speech, the reasons for this trend are varied.
“We did find significant associations between mortality rates and some of these factors, such as smoking rates for both sexes," Kindig and Cheng wrote. "But socioeconomic factors
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Don’t worry about your mortality ladies. When Barry and the Left get the CW2 they yearn for started, everyone’s life spans are going to take hits — men, women, and children. In this war the American Left is going to find that payback is a real b-eye-itch.
Why are New Jersey and Connecticut dark green?
Billy Joe Shaver~Live Forever
Women stil live a lot longer than men, but the rate at which that gap is increasing is slowing. Therefore, we need to pump far more money into more womens health. As for the men, who cares?
an effort to make conservative states look like they are killing women....I don’t believe this so called study at all
Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virgina really are red states.
Fortunately for America, Hillary appears to be in fairly poor overall health herself.
Lately the drive by shootings in Chicago have been killing more 6 year old girls this year, instead of the usual 5 year olds we saw a year ago. This is 20% improvement.
We may as well throw our hands in the air and ask, “What difference, at this point, does it make?”
1. Americans are a highly mobile population. Most people don't live in the same place their whole lives. The women in a given county at the beginning of the survey period are not the same women at the end of the survey period.
2. The period of the survey was a period of high levels of immigration. Women at the end of the survey period were not even in America at the beginning of the survey period.
3. There is no accounting for lifestyle issues. Nothing about smoking, drug use etc.
4. There is no accounting for socioeconomic level of the women.
5. There is no accounting for genes and their influence on lifespan. There is no comparison of women's lifespan and their parent's lifespan.
5. It is assumed that there is some flaw in the medical care available in the U.S. The assumption in the write up is medical care for women has gotten worse.
The only thing that breaks my heart about this is the researchers dishonesty.
This was from the comments on the article. This is clearly a phony study to promote a political agenda.
I’m a doctor and not sure what to make of this.
They have the mortality rate change...but not the average age of death.
I wonder how many deaths are from lung cancer (40 years ago we mainly saw it in men but now we see it in women) and from diabetes/obesity.
But as a whole, the map is meaningless.
Are they including stats on females in the womb? Cause I hear its getting a lot worse for them.
You might want to look at the correlation between ‘The Pill’ and breast cancer.
Quotes from that hag are to be dismissed, she being a major filthy liar anyway
No, the doing-it-all women are the thin, nonsmoking women who are living longer.
Why is that nonsense? Women actually walk in cities like NYC.
Letting them smoke and overeat?
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