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

By Anne Case, Angus Deaton. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Health

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Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity (2017, background): “…to the first increase in the national death rate in decades and to the unusual recent decline in life expectancy for white females (Arias, 2016; Case and Deaton, 2015; NCHS, 2016).1 Although significant progress has been made in narrowing the gap in health outcomes (NCHS, 2016), the…”
Health Disparities due to Diminished Return among Black Americans: Public Policy Solutions (2018, background): “An example of this lack of preparedness is the recent increase in deaths of despair (i.e., death due to suicide, overdose, and substance use) in White Americans documented by Case and Deaton (2015).”
Diagnosis and Treatment of Alcohol‐Associated Liver Diseases: 2019 Practice Guidance From the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (2020, positive): “ALD comprises a substantial portion of the overall cirrhosis burden, both in the United States and worldwide, and is responsible for rising rates of liver-related mortality in the United States, especially among younger patients.(3-5) In the United States, mortality due to all ALD was estimated at 5”
Unequal hopes and lives in the USA: optimism, race, place, and premature mortality (2019, methodology): “For mortality rates, we rely on 2010–2015 data from the CDC Compressed Mortality File.22 We compute a MSA-level composite mortality measure using the causes of death that Case and Deaton (2015a) identified as being key drivers of the change.”
Food Deserts and the Causes of Nutritional Inequality* (2019, background): “A wave of recent studies have drawn increased attention to the causes and consequences of socioeconomic inequality (Aizer and Currie, 2014; Case and Deaton, 2015; Chetty et al., 2014; Chetty et al., 2016; Saez and Piketty, 2003).”
When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage Market Value of Young Men (2017, background): “Case and Deaton (2015; 2017) show that drug and alcohol (D&A) related mortality rose by epidemic proportions among working-age adults in this time period.”