my uninformed guess would be that we've seen a trend of increasing life expectancy due to greater wealth and advancements in healthcare. The wealth has plateaued and the advancements in healthcare are now showing diminishing returns as the low-hanging fruit all been plucked. Meanwhile, our lifestyle of low exercise and bad food is now having a larger effect on reducing life expectancy than the beneficial effects wealth and advancement can muster. Why whites first? Because whites took the benefits of wealth and advancement first, and minorities still haven't finished tapping those gains. If meth is any part of the answer here, it's a bigger problem than I realize. It doesn't have to be about politics. This forum is for politics, religion, and any other topic that is too unsavory for polite company.
No. Your proposed explanation cannot explain why the mortality rate of white woman between the ages of 40 to 50 has increased.
Latinos and Asian Americans have almost always had higher life expectancy than Caucasians. African Americans tend to have the lowest life expectancy. But for the two groups that outperform Caucasians, its interesting to note that one group (Asian Americans) tend to have higher than average income and access to healthcare while Latinos tend to have lower than average access to income and healthcare. Yet each group outperforms Caucasians when it comes to life expectancy.
let's just say white middle age women's mortality rate has less to do with white people disappearing than non white people reproducing non stop.
This has been answered. The statistics show deaths per 100,000 people who have already been born. Doesn't matter how slowly or quickly these 100,000 were born. The statistics have zero to do with anyone reproducing.
Both groups on the whole have yet to dump their elderly in homes to rot away. Family culture and all that.
I'll throw an idea out there: the pressure is too much, particularly in American society. We need to look at the implications of policy positions that promote non-stop competition, greed, mistrusting your neighbours/coworkers (ending up with no one you can trust), distancing family, instilling authoritarian values in kids schools, homes and activities, the threat of an economic crash every 10-15 years (losing your home/savings/pension), being paid LESS for the same work as men, being prescribed opioids and anti depressants and refined sugar to bury these feelings deeper, being told that doing squats everyday on instagram will earn you a better material life than an actual career, etc. In short, these women are literally being objectified to death and this is exactly the age where it would affect them, and exactly the race that would be most affected. IMO of course.
Our president and his presidential-election losing ally care more about "refugees" and illegal immigrants than the plight of Americans. NO concern over the increase in drug overdose deaths, violent crimes, and homicide. And they wonder why they lost the election. https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates
Big butt having, wide-nosed breathing all the white man's air, they think they are the best dancers and they eat up all the chickens. White Power!
Oh.... what has the president elect said about prescription drug abuse? You are aware the Obama Administration has actually pushed for measure to combat prescription drug abuse and has actually implemented measures? Seems not enough people being informed on reality is why Trump won the election. Carry on.
Gee, could it be that the ever-widening chasm in our economic classes, and the accompanying hopelessness of those left on the downhill side of that chasm, is related to increasing drug use, just like it's related to increased depression and suicide? Holding one or two politicians responsible for a forty-year trend is laughable, (to put it charitably). Holding one party responsible would also be un-smart. By the way, 2015 showed American life expectancy going down for the first time in a very long time. There are definitely problems and they are numerous. Personally, I think privatizing Medicare will solve everything.
There's been a considerable amount of hand-wringing over the shiny new drug epidemic in this country. Obama proposed 1 billion to combat this threat, most of which would go to treatment facilities tailored to state's specific needs. Those are funds sorely needed. The wait times for some of these places result in many people giving up and continuing desperate lives they wish to change. I commend him for trying to stop the bleeding. Until we rework the detrimental effect that the pharmaceutical industry plays in this country, nothing will change much. It's the primary source for people who take up the needle/straw. It's tempting to primarily blame "bad hombres" for this but prescription opiates are everywhere. The heroin dealers are just scooping up the fallout. The numbers are staggering; 75 % of all heroin users started with prescription opiates. https://www.drugabuse.gov/publicati...rescription-opioid-use-risk-factor-heroin-use But what some people don't want to acknowledge, for whatever reason, is how income inequality forces many in these depressed communities to turn to drugs to escape their realities. Of course, a life of drug addiction only makes lives worse and ODs & suicides follow. It's heartbreaking to see the human toll first hand. Suspending the access to healthcare for many in this country, however temporarily, will make this problem massively worse, IMO.
