A Deadly Drop in Rankings: How the United States Was Left Behind in Global Life Expectancy Trends

Affiliations

¹ Lilly Shanahan is with the Department of Psychology and the Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development at the University of Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland. William E. Copeland is with the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont, Burlington.

Editorial

Lilly Shanahan et al. Am J Public Health. 2023 Sep.

. 2023 Sep;113(9):961-963.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2023.307367. Epub 2023 Jul 20.

¹ Lilly Shanahan is with the Department of Psychology and the Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development at the University of Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland. William E. Copeland is with the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont, Burlington.

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Falling Behind: The Growing Gap in Life Expectancy Between the United States and Other Countries, 1933-2021.
Woolf SH. Woolf SH. Am J Public Health. 2023 Sep;113(9):970-980. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2023.307310. Epub 2023 Jun 1. Am J Public Health. 2023. PMID: 37262403 Free PMC article.

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