[Peace-discuss] life expectancy gap

[Ricky Baldwin]

What can we do with this?  Letters to the editor? 
What else?  Combine it somehow with the study that
found Arab/Muslim men's wages have dropped 10 percent
since 9-11-01?  Ideas?

-Ricky


>From democracynow. org. BD

Report Finds Wide Gaps in Mortality Rates Inside U.S.
Here in the United States, a new study has revealed
there are still
wide gaps in mortality rates between African-Americans
and other
groups. An African-American man living in a high-crime
city can expect
to live 21 fewer years than a woman of Asian descent
in the United
States. The man's life expectancy, in fact, is closer
to that of
people living in West Africa than it is to the average
white American.
According to the Washington Post, the study found that
the United
States is pocked by places where millions of adults
face a risk of
premature death like that in Angola, Mexico and
Nigeria. The study
found Asian women to have the longest life expectancy
– just over 87
years. African-American men living in urban areas have
the shortest –
just under 67 years.

-- 
Brian Dolinar, Ph.D.
303 W. Locust St.
Urbana, IL 61801
briandolinar@ gmail.com

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