The effects of prenatal deaths on national life expectancy: case study U.S.A.
Introduction: It is a positive indicator that human life expectancies calculated from birth have been increasing. The current standards for counting life-years, however, assume social desirability and exclude all prenatal deaths. These assumptions mask low life-year deaths and obscure results of med...
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| description | Introduction: It is a positive indicator that human life expectancies calculated from birth have been increasing. The current standards for counting life-years, however, assume social desirability and exclude all prenatal deaths. These assumptions mask low life-year deaths and obscure results of medical and environmental interventions, thus falsely indicating higher life expectancies.
Aim: The aim of this study is to quantify the life expectancy with and without social desirability.
Methods: This case study investigates 1930 to 2016 using CDC and World Bank data for the U.S. for the impact of social desirability on life expectancy.
Results: It is evident that published U.S. life expectancies are greatly exaggerated, and what would have been short-lived Americans are disproportionately labeled as socially undesirable and ignored when counting life years, thus presenting an overly optimistic view of U.S. health.
Conclusions: A comprehensive global investigation is needed, and a refinement of life expectancy calculations should be introduced, which does not bias results by only counting life expectancy from the time of live birth.
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| spelling | doaj-art-972766c722e546618552e96034b0c6902025-01-19T22:47:21ZengUniversidad LibreInterdisciplinary Journal of Epidemiology and Public Health2665-427X2024-12-017210.18041/2665-427X/ijeph.2.10669The effects of prenatal deaths on national life expectancy: case study U.S.A.Madeleine R. Hollman 0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2304-8846Joshua Pearce1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9802-3056Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USAWestern University, Ontario, CanadaIntroduction: It is a positive indicator that human life expectancies calculated from birth have been increasing. The current standards for counting life-years, however, assume social desirability and exclude all prenatal deaths. These assumptions mask low life-year deaths and obscure results of medical and environmental interventions, thus falsely indicating higher life expectancies. Aim: The aim of this study is to quantify the life expectancy with and without social desirability. Methods: This case study investigates 1930 to 2016 using CDC and World Bank data for the U.S. for the impact of social desirability on life expectancy. Results: It is evident that published U.S. life expectancies are greatly exaggerated, and what would have been short-lived Americans are disproportionately labeled as socially undesirable and ignored when counting life years, thus presenting an overly optimistic view of U.S. health. Conclusions: A comprehensive global investigation is needed, and a refinement of life expectancy calculations should be introduced, which does not bias results by only counting life expectancy from the time of live birth. https://revistas-unilibre.repositoriodigital.com/index.php/iJEPH/article/view/10669health policylife expectancylife yearsDALYprenatal deaths |
| spellingShingle | Madeleine R. Hollman Joshua Pearce The effects of prenatal deaths on national life expectancy: case study U.S.A. Interdisciplinary Journal of Epidemiology and Public Health health policy life expectancy life years DALY prenatal deaths |
| title | The effects of prenatal deaths on national life expectancy: case study U.S.A. |
| title_full | The effects of prenatal deaths on national life expectancy: case study U.S.A. |
| title_fullStr | The effects of prenatal deaths on national life expectancy: case study U.S.A. |
| title_full_unstemmed | The effects of prenatal deaths on national life expectancy: case study U.S.A. |
| title_short | The effects of prenatal deaths on national life expectancy: case study U.S.A. |
| title_sort | effects of prenatal deaths on national life expectancy case study u s a |
| topic | health policy life expectancy life years DALY prenatal deaths |
| url | https://revistas-unilibre.repositoriodigital.com/index.php/iJEPH/article/view/10669 |
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