A person’s lifespan appears to be linked to marriage, gender, education and race White unmarried men with a high school diploma have the highest risk of an early death White married women with a university education have the lowest risk of early death TUESDAY, Aug. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- A person’s lifespan appears to be linked to four specific social factors – marriage, gender, education and race. The interplay between those four factors helps explain differences in lifespan between Americans, researchers report.
“There is a complex interaction between social and individual determinants of health, with no one determinant explaining the full observed variation in lifespan,” concluded the research team led by Marie Pier Bergeron-Boucher , an assistant professor with Syddansk University in Denmark. Overall life expectancy has declined in the United States for two years in a row, by nearly two years in 2020 and by about a year in 2021, the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. Average U.S.
life expectancy now stands at 76.1 years, its lowest level since 1996, according to the CDC. For this study, researchers focused on partial life expectancy, or the years a person can expect to live between ages 30 and 80.
The team analyzed federal data on deaths and the U.S. population between 2015 and 2019, looking at how all combinations of the four factors could influence risk of early death from one of the 11 leading causes of death in the nation.
Results sho.