The big puzzle left unanswered by Case and Deaton is the «why» question: Why have the rates of these types of
death increased for this age group of white Americans, but have continued to decline for Hispanics and African Americans (although the absolute death rate for African Americans remains shockingly high even as overall death rates decline), and have continued to decline for Europeans?
Not exact matches
«This surge is very troubling and likely foreshadows an
increase of importation, abuse, and overdose
deaths in the United States,» Anthony Williams, assistant administrator and chief of operations
for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, told the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control on Tuesday.
«The [
death] rate
increased 0.9 %
for heart disease, 2.7 %
for chronic lower respiratory diseases, 6.7 %
for unintentional injuries, 3.0 %
for stroke, 15.7 %
for Alzheimer's disease, 1.9 %
for diabetes, 1.5 %
for kidney disease, and 2.3 %
for suicide.
The decision comes on the heels of a new report from the National Center
for Health Statistics, an agency of the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, that shows the rate of estimated drug overdose deaths increased in the third quarter of 2016 and outpaced the rate of drug - related deaths over the same period in 20
for Health Statistics, an agency of the Centers
For Disease Control and Prevention, that shows the rate of estimated drug overdose deaths increased in the third quarter of 2016 and outpaced the rate of drug - related deaths over the same period in 20
For Disease Control and Prevention, that shows the rate of estimated drug overdose
deaths increased in the third quarter of 2016 and outpaced the rate of drug - related
deaths over the same period in 2015.
Tariffs on imported goods would force many to rethink their supply chain or
increase prices, and moving manufacturing to the U.S. would be a
death wish
for many small firms like Black N Bianco.
There were six
deaths for every 100,000 women aged 45 to 64 in 2014, a number that represents a 63 %
increase from 1999.
In a meta - analysis of 3 million people, which controlled
for confounding factors such as demographics and objective isolation, loneliness
increased odds of an early
death by 26 %.
Listening too much to early adopters often leads to an expensive
death spiral, since these users will request more and more features, more precise control of the technology, and more interoperability, all of which
increase the complexity of the product, and decrease the usability
for the average customer.
Realizing that Jews have been the scapegoats of all Western history, that they have been made to bear responsibility
for everything from the Black
Death to the economic ills of the Germans, these observers fear that the enormous
increase in Jewish numbers in America will lead to charges that the Jews have monopolized the opportunities
for economic advance and that these charges will pave the way
for Fascism here as they paved the way
for Hitler in Germany.
The consumer will incur a surrender charge, be subject to the commencement of a new surrender period, lose existing benefits (such as a higher crediting guarantee than is currently available, as well as
death, living or other contractual benefits), or be subject to
increased fees, investment advisory fees or charges
for riders and similar product enhancements;
The threat, often referred to as the «utility
death spiral,» goes like this: as customers choose to install solar panels or adopt energy efficiency measures, a utility will sell fewer units of energy and has to
increase what it charges
for electricity to ensure that it can still cover its fixed costs, such as grid maintenance and labor.
These optional forms can include cost - of - living
increases or higher level amounts; the hypothetical account balance is not available as a lump sum except
for small amounts or to the beneficiary of the participant upon his or her
death before commencement.
The consumer will incur a surrender charge, be subject to the commencement of a new surrender period, lose existing benefits (such as
death, living or other contractual benefits), or be subject to
increased fees, investment advisory fees or charges
for riders and similar product enhancements;
In addition, people who have recently bought handguns have an
increased risk of suicide, which accounts
for about two in three gun
deaths in the US.
Next, it also
increases the exemption on what Republicans call the «
death tax» — the 40 percent tax (after deducting donations and spousal gifts) on the wealth of deceased persons before it's distributed to their heirs — from $ 11 million to $ 22 million
for married couples.
Among them are the rights to: bullet joint parenting; bullet joint adoption; bullet joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents); bullet status as next - of - kin
for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent; bullet joint insurance policies
for home, auto and health; bullet dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support; bullet immigration and residency
for partners from other countries; bullet inheritance automatically in the absence of a will; bullet joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment; bullet inheritance of jointly - owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate); bullet benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare; bullet spousal exemptions to property tax
increases upon the
death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home; bullet veterans» discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns; bullet joint filing of customs claims when traveling; bullet wrongful
death benefits
for a surviving partner and children; bullet bereavement or sick leave to care
for a partner or child; bullet decision - making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her; bullet crime victims» recovery benefits; bullet loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders; bullet judicial protections and evidentiary immunity; bullet and more...
For instance, the steady destruction of our natural forests, pasture lands and inland coastal water bodies has not only meant increased economic poverty for millions of tribals, nomads and traditional fisherfolk, but also a slow cultural and social death: a dismal change from rugged self - sufficient human beings to abjectly dependent landless laborers and squalor - stricken urban migran
For instance, the steady destruction of our natural forests, pasture lands and inland coastal water bodies has not only meant
increased economic poverty
for millions of tribals, nomads and traditional fisherfolk, but also a slow cultural and social death: a dismal change from rugged self - sufficient human beings to abjectly dependent landless laborers and squalor - stricken urban migran
for millions of tribals, nomads and traditional fisherfolk, but also a slow cultural and social
death: a dismal change from rugged self - sufficient human beings to abjectly dependent landless laborers and squalor - stricken urban migrants.
These could occur when, in order to
increase the availability of organs
for transplants, organs are removed without respecting objective and adequate criteria which verify the
death of the donor.»
It would only
increase Roman hostility were they to think that the founder of Christianity had himself been put to
death for sedition.
The New York Times reports that Angus Deaton and Ann Case, two Princeton economists, have identified
increases in suicide and drug and alcohol related
deaths among high school educated white Americas as the cause
for a remarkable spike in the overall
death rate
for....
Indeed, the animal rights movement's fury against the speciesist use of animals» a necessary element
for human flourishing, particularly in medical research» has
increased to the point that scientists are now under threat of
death by the most radical liberationists
for daring to experiment on rats or monkeys to find cures
for cancer and other human afflictions.
The U.S. government avoids —
for now — the public outcry that would accompany hefty tax
increases and the deployment and
death of thousands of U.S. soldiers.
8) The sentence of
death may be improper if it has serious negative effects on society, such as miscarriages of justice, the
increase of vindictiveness, or disrespect
for the value of innocent human life.
He ultimately argues that there was an original act of violence which ultimately led to the possibility of the destruction of all people in the community, and so to avoid the ever -
increasing cycles of violence, the community selected a ritual victim (a human or an animal) that would both carry the guilt of the community as well as the violent tendencies into
death, thus satisfying the demands
for revenge and the blood lust that comes with it.
Dominic was about forty - five years old by then, and had only six more years to live, but all his life and experience up until then had been preparing him
for this moment, and the six years before his
death saw the Order
increase at a phenomenal rate, a testimony to the divine inspiration behind it.
The Vatican statement expressed profound concern
for the radicalisation and worsening of the crisis, including the
increase in
deaths, injuries and arrests of protesters.
The
increase in non-voluntary euthanasia and the introduction of child euthanasia in Belgium are clear signs of how easily these bills, with an initial narrow remit, are rapidly modified to become a
death sentence
for anyone of limited economic value or potential.
A national
increase in
deaths from suicide, alcohol, and drug abuse has caused overall life expectancy to decline
for the first time since the AIDS epidemic.
One example of these occurs «when, in order to
increase the availability of organs
for transplants, organs are removed without respecting objective and adequate criteria which verify the
death of the donor.»
Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's
death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially
for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union
for Democratic Action, then later of Americans
for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly;
increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center
for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and
death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.
Secondly, while attention has been understandably focused on the result that the greatest
increase in overall mortality occurred among white Americans with a high school degree or less, Case and Deaton's results show that
death from suicide and drug poisoning
for white Americans with BA degrees or some college also
increased for the middle - aged, 45 - 54 category.
To wit, if a new cancer treatment reduces cancer mortality
for a group by ten percent, but
death from suicide and drug and alcohol abuse
increases, say, by eight percent, then the overall
death rate
for the group goes down by two percent.
Case and Deaton highlight the finding that overall mortality rates
for middle - aged white Americans have
increased in recent years due to
deaths from self - destructive behavior: suicide, drug and alcohol overdose, and disease resulting from long - term alcohol abuse.
If economic stagnation were the cause of the
increase in
death rates, then one would expect that self - destructive
death rates
for women should have continued to decline while the
death rates
for men
increased.
The focus on the
increase in
death rates
for white Americans between ages 45 - 54 in the media obscures equally troubling results in Anne Case and Angus Deaton's recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, «Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st Century.»
But back to the data showing an
increase in
deaths by self - destruction
for white Americans between the larger set of ages, ages 30 through 64.
The focus on the
increase in
death rates
for white Americans between ages 45 - 54 in the media obscures equally troubling results in Anne Case and Angus Deaton's recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, «Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife....
They seem to be genuinely concerned with the pain and ugliness of «bad
death,» and some of them are worried that the horrors of technological
death increase grassroots support
for the euthanasia movement.
For the director of Eshhad, Amira Mikhail, the dramatic
increase in
deaths is, in part, evidence of a «shift» in power from Islamic State, in which the self - proclaimed Caliphate fighters have sought new targets in north Africa after losing significant territory in the Arabian peninsula.
Constant ovulation is not normal nor healthy
for their bodies and
increases their risk
for ovarian cancer, uterine prolapse and other reproductive diseases causing early
death (which is why they are sent to slaughter
for cheap meat in the egg industry).
In case you missed it, a recent landmark study published in the peer reviewed International Journal of Epidemiology found that risk
for coronary heart disease, stroke, total cardiovascular disease and
death other than from cancer was reduced with each 200g a day
increase in fruit and vegetables up to 800g a day, and 600g a day
for cancer.
After controlling
for age, sex, education, exercise, smoking, blood pressure, cholesterol levels, diabetes and cancer, a two - point
increase in the Mediterranean diet score was linked with a 21 per cent reduced risk of
death.
Formula takes longer to digest and thus those children sleep
for longer stretches than breastfed babies and often sleep deeper — causing an
increase in SIDS
deaths as well.
Many babies sleep better on their belly, but research is quite clear on the
increased risk
for Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome by doing that.
Leaving aside
for the moment that this is the same group who crowed over a 20 %
increase in homebirths from from 0.56 % to 0.67 % of US births, does dismissing the absolute number of
death as low fully convey what is at stake in the decision to attempt homebirth?
That's why it is absolutely critical
for readers of Charlotte's story to understand that Charlotte didn't have to die, that homebirth
increases the risk of perinatal
death, and that licensed Oregon homebirth midwives have a
death rate 800 % higher than term hospital birth.
It does show an
increased neonatal
death rate
for homebirth.
Both amniocentesis and homebirth involve exposing a baby to an
increased risk of
death in exchange
for a benefit that accrues to the mother.
Helping adolescent males to delay fatherhood may also be important from a child health perspective: research that controlled
for maternal age and other key factors found teenage fatherhood associated with an
increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes, including preterm birth, low birth weight and neonatal
death (Chen et al, 2007).
When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted
for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at
increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or
death.)