Woolf Steven H, Schoomaker Heidi, Hill Latoya, Orndahl Christine M
Virginia Commonwealth University,
VCU Health,
J Appalach Health. 2019 Apr 30;1(1):6-14. doi: 10.13023/jah.0101.02. eCollection 2019.
For the past century, life expectancy in industrialized countries has increased, and the U.S. has shared in that progress. However, beginning in the 1980s, advances in U.S. life expectancy began to lose pace with peer countries. By 1998, U.S. life expectancy had fallen below the average for Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development nations. U.S. life expectancy peaked in 2014 and has been decreasing for three consecutive years, a trend not been seen since the influenza pandemic a century ago. Put simply, U.S. health is in decline.
在过去的一个世纪里，工业化国家的预期寿命有所增加，美国也取得了同样的进步。然而，从20世纪80年代开始，美国预期寿命的增长开始落后于其他同类国家。到1998年，美国的预期寿命已低于经济合作与发展组织国家的平均水平。美国的预期寿命在2014年达到峰值，此后连续三年下降，这是自一个世纪前流感大流行以来未曾出现过的趋势。简而言之，美国的健康状况正在下降。
