Monday, February 8, 2016

Suicide, substance abuse not only cause of 'mortality gap' for middle-aged white Americans


Princeton University made headlines when they did a study on the death rate of middle-age white Americans. The ages 45-54 has been increasing over the passed 15 years. Those deaths occur because people accidently poison themselves from an overdoes of drugs or alcohol. Bluementhal and Squires say that death rates have been declining by 2% per year in the United States since 1968. it has declined through most of the age groups and also races and ethnic groups. Heart disease is the second reason why middle-aged Americans die.For African-Americans and Hispanics the death rate is rapidly decreasing. In seven states the expected death rates for middle-aged white americans exceeded to 200 deaths per 100,000 people.Minnesota had the smaller gap with 59 extra deaths for every 100,000 people.


Source:://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2016/02/suicide-substance-abuse-not-only-cause-mortality-gap-middle-aged-white-americ
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3 comments:

  1. yessi_ohhFebruary 9, 2016 at 10:16 AM

    I think this is a good post. It is very useful for many Americans. But what is your opinion on it or what do you think people can do to prevent this from happening?

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  2. UnknownFebruary 9, 2016 at 10:20 AM

    This blog seems like you took a break from writing. its very sporadic and doesn't make much sense.

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  3. Ana GuzmanFebruary 10, 2016 at 4:18 PM

    The topic you chose can be beneficial to American's. With that being said, I got lost towards the middle of your paragraph where you went from talking about the reasons why middle-aged Americans are dieing to talking about the death decrease in African Americans and Hispanics. Then you went straight into talking about specific states which was a bit confusing too. Maybe adding transitions between the 3 different sections of the subject could help make it easier to follow up with the information that is given in your blog.

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