The American Journal of Managed Care

Stalled Progress in Reducing Black Mortality Rates: The Role of External Causes and COVID-19

Despite reductions in deaths from cancer and cardiovascular diseases, increased mortality from assaults, accidents, and the COVID-19 pandemic has widened disparities in health outcomes for Black ...
EurekAlert!

Mortality Rates, Mortality Rate Ratios, and Excess US Deaths Attributable to the US Mortality Disadvantage Relative to Other High-Income Countries (HIC) (IMAGE)

A. Trends in US mortality rates, mortality rates of other HICs, and average mortality rates in other HICs standardized to the US age distribution in each year (1980-2023). B. Age-specific mortality ...
Healio

Rising deaths in early-aged adults suggests ‘possibility of a worsening mortality crisis’

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Excess mortality among early adults was 34.6% higher than anticipated in 2019. Excess mortality in 2023 for that ...
Minnesota Daily

The ‘missing Americans:’ Researchers uncover troubling mortality disparity

Each year, the United States has hundreds of thousands of deaths that could have been averted, according to a new collaboration between researchers at Boston University, Hunter College and the ...
Medical Xpress

Study: High excess death rates in the West for 3 years running since start of pandemic despite containment and vaccines

Excess death rates have remained high in the West for three years running since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, finds a data analysis of 47 countries published in BMJ Public Health. This is ...
IFLScience

“Missing Americans”: US Excess Deaths Still Above Pre-COVID Levels, Upwards Of 1 Million

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

COVID-19 Exacerbated Racial and Ethnic Mortality Disparities

Over 1.38 million excess deaths occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, with significant disparities among racial and ethnic minorities. American Indian or Alaska Native and Hispanic populations had ...
Healio

Youth mortality rate widens between US, peer countries, with most deaths among infants

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Excess deaths at age 10 to 19 years increased between 2009 (27.5%) to 2019 (35.8%). More than half of the deaths ...
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Cancer mortality drops 34% as treatments and early detection improve

By Dr. Sanchari Sinha Dutta, Ph.D. New national estimates reveal historic gains in cancer survival and millions of deaths averted, while exposing stark inequities and warning that policy decisions ...