American Medical Association finds people in US are sick for an average of 12.4 years, an increase from figure in 2000

Summary

Americans spend more time living with disease than people in other countries. A new study by the American Medical Association reveals that Americans live with illness for an average of 12.4 years, up from 10.9 years in 2000.

Women in the US experience a larger healthspan-lifespan gap than men.

Mental, substance-use, and musculoskeletal disorders are major contributors to this gap.

Globally, the healthspan-lifespan gap has also widened over the past two decades.

  • DarklyEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Always hate this, “obvious solution to an American problem is obvious” but the answer can’t be that simple! repeated message from every news outlet

    • triptrapper@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 hours ago

      “Nuance Trolling”: The insistence that some major beneficial development like single-payer healthcare, ending wars and bombing campaigns, or the mitigation, even cessation, of climate change is impossible because the situation is too nuanced, the plan too lacking in detail, the goal too hard to achieve, the public isn’t behind it or some other bad faith “concern” that makes bold action an impossibility.

      -Citations Needed podcast Ep. 201