MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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A poor bill of health
By EmmaZahn on Wed, 07/10/2013 - 4:48pm |The question is what might be done. A single national solution is unlikely to work. Dr Murray and his colleagues report that the gap between life expectancies in the highest and lowest ranked counties has widened since 1985 (see chart below). In the top counties—Marin County, California for women and Fairfax County, Virginia for men—the life expectancies rival those of Switzerland and Japan. At the same time, at least one of every nine counties has a life expectancy lower than Nicaragua's. Parts of West Virginia and Mississippi fare worse than Bangladesh and Algeria.
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2013/07/disease-and-death-america
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