U.S. State Policies and Life Expectancy Last year, the VCU Center on Society and Health published a study that showed the mortality rates among working-age Americans continue to rise, causing a decrease in life expectancy in the United States. A new study, co-authored by the center’s director emeritus, Steven Woolf, seeks to explain this change….
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Based on estimated county-level life expectancy data, researchers found that the U.S. ranked 37th in the world for life expectancy in 2007.