[Stoves] Off-topic: Premature mortality differences in the US - solid fuels to blame?

[Nikhil Desai]

An interesting news item about differences in life expectancy across US community. 

Life expectancy at what age? Birth? Five years or 35 years? How do death certificates from 1980 to 2014 - people born as far back as 1885 and as recently as 2014 - say anything about life expectancy at birth in, say, Fairfax County, today?

The whole story is GoBbleDygook - babies born today has nothing whatsoever to do with county death rates. Or with those born in Iraq and Sudan. 

Scare, agitation, anxiety, generated by IHME contribute to premature mortality of 7 million people a year. 

I hope our friends in Colorado live near or around Summit, Pittkin, or Eagle County and enjoy post-mature mortality 30+ years after their cohort's life expectancy. My death is post-mature by twice as many decades.

The story does not say whether IHME produced County Burden of Disease reports and how much premature mortality was allocated to PM 2.5 emissions - say from coal mining and coal combustion in Kentucky. 

Nikhil

U.S. life expectancy varies by more than 20 years from county to county


"Andrew Cherlin, a professor of sociology and public policy at Johns Hopkins University, said that the increasing inequality in death rates at the county level is troubling. “But it’s unclear from this study what has caused it,” said Cherlin, who was not part of the research team. "It’s hard to separate out the consequences of lower incomes, unhealthy conditions such as obesity, less access to health care providers, and of healthier people moving out of some counties.”"

"The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation researchers looked at death certificates from 1980 through 2014. Among the places with sharply increased life expectancy and lower deaths over that period are the District of Columbia and Loudoun County, Va. — where life expectancy is up 12.8 and 12.4 percent, respectively. Fairfax County has the lowest all-cause death rate in the metropolitan Washington region, significantly lower than the national average."

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Democracy Dies in Darkness
 
 	
Health Alert	Mon., May. 08, 2017 11:03 a.m.
 
 	
U.S. life expectancy rates differ by more than 20 years between some counties, the largest discrepancy since the 1980s
Life expectancy is rising generally in America, but some areas have seen death rates going conspicuously in the other direction, according to a report by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. A baby born in Summit County, Colorado has a life expectancy of nearly 87 years, but in some counties the life expectancy is more than 20 years lower, coming close to that in impoverished and war-torn countries such as Iraq or Sudan.

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