Posted on 04/05/2013 9:20:41 PM PDT by blam
This Map Of US Female Mortality Will Break Your Heart
Grace Wyler
Apr. 5, 2013, 6:31 PM
In a speech at the Women In The World summit Friday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton mentioned a startling fact:
Women in the U.S. are living shorter lives than women in almost every other industrialized country. And worse yet, female mortality rates are actually rising in many parts of the country.
"Think about it for a minute. We are the richest and most powerful country in the world," Clinton said. "Yet many American women today are living shorter lives than their mothers, especially those with the least education. That is a historic reversal that rivals the decline in life expectancy for Russian men after the disintegration of the Soviet Union."
We looked into Clinton's claims, and it appears she is correct.
A study published last month by the Journal of Health Affairs found that between 1992-96 and 2002-06, the number of premature deaths actually rose for women in some parts of the country
The research, conducted by David Kindig and Erika Cheng of the University of Wisconsin, found that nationally the female mortality rate fell from 324 to 318 per 100,000 during that period.
But in 42.3 percent of counties, the female mortality rate rose, from 317 to about 333 per 100,000. Male mortality rates, by contrast, rose in only about 3 percent of counties.
Check out the map below, via Bill Gardner at the Incidental Economist. Red means that mortality worsened.
Bill Gardner
As Clinton noted in her speech, the reasons for this trend are varied.
“We did find significant associations between mortality rates and some of these factors, such as smoking rates for both sexes," Kindig and Cheng wrote. "But socioeconomic factors
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Obesity and smoking.
Most professional women aren’t the overweight smokers who are dying young.
Female Hispanic immigrants are actually surprisingly long-lived.
Many such morons will no doubt read your words and wax indignant. And, as a result, we will be well and truly screwed!
Voting has nothing to do with principles.
I think if you overlay the long lifespan of Hispanic women with smoking and obesity rates by region the map makes lots of sense. As to the experience of Hispanic women, the causes are unclear: Only the healthy immigrating? Strong social networks?
The blogger is clearly a lefty, but he’s merely quoting the data from someone else’s study. Don’t know how those who did the study spun it, because I didn’t sign up at the source, but the data itself isn’t necessarily biased.
Workplace stress?
This may indicate that, after all, a woman’s place is in the home.
Look at that map. All the Liberal areas appear to be doing great while coincidentally all the Conservative areas are doing worse. I call B.S.
All women do-it-all - even if you’re just one of those stay at home moms. I believe heart attacks are waaaaay up among women - probably caused by stressful workloads and other factors.
I’m also mystified why some twin obesity and smoking. Actors and models all spoke (often secretly) to stay SLIM. It’s giving up all that smoking that’s contributed to the obesity trouble in this country.
I was responding to OP’s posting that feminism’s leading to women ‘doing it all’ was the cause.
And obesity and smoking are factors in early death. They of course don’t have to go together, but they are both class-related in the US and more prevalent in more heavily working-class regions.
That actually could be the case. Urban women could die on average ten years earlier than rural women, but if government programs are causing marginal improvements in longevity, while ignoring rural women, who are dying a bit younger due to obseity-related diseases, the map could be accurate - while hiding the real underlying story.
Think about it. Mexico has made significant improvements in overall material well-being. So illegal immigrants nowadays arrive in much better health than they did 50 years ago. And they also have access to taxpayer-paid health-care.
This kind of map can hide a lot of details.
“especially those with the least education”. Sounds like more money will be dumped into educating the non educatable Just take a look at where mortality rates are celebratory, ny, california, massachusettes, vermont, connecticut and new hampshire. WOW these rats are really doing a great job for women in these democratically controlled strongholds
The change in mortality rate which is nothing more than deaths per 100,000 would be expected to increase as the distribution of the population continues to shift to an older population.
Therefore it is typical of the political scientist to draw conclusions from a statistic which is taken out of context and is in wrong as to the cause. Political scientist all have a political agenda.
http://www.nationmaster.com/country/us/Age_distribution
I agree. It is easier to show improvement in areas with formerly high mortality. Similarly, areas where premature mortality is low would be more apt to have increases. I’ve hear that called “regression to the mean.” Life expectancy by county would be far more interesting and more relevant.
That said, you must notice the correlation between this map and (say) election maps. Similarly, areas with high concentrations of illegal immigrants (Texas border, areas of California, south Fla) are faring well in terms of the change. There is a story there, but I don’t think it is the one they are telling.
Statistical interactions are hard to explain to technical people. It will be impossible to explain to the masses unless we first teach math and statistics.
“Still Gonna Die” - Old Dogs (Waylon Jennings, Jerry Reed, Bobby Bare, Mel Tillis)
Mrs. Clinton, what difference does it make?
Yeah, I love how the “worsening” counties are red, and “substantial improvement” is blue. Who decided on that color scheme?
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