Laboratory

Population Health

Project

Why Does Health in the US Continue to Lag Behind?

Mikko Myrskylä, Marcus Ebeling, Enrique Acosta, Neil Kishor Mehta (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)

In this project, a multidisciplinary group of researchers provides an updated and wide-ranging treatment of the question: “What are the main factors driving the US shortfall in health and mortality?” Detailed Description

Research Keywords:

Aging, Mortality and Longevity

Region keywords:

USA

Publications

Abrams, L. R.; Myrskylä, M.; Mehta, N. K.:

The "double jeopardy" of midlife and old age mortality trends in the United States

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120:42, e2308360120–e2308360120. (2023)

Acosta, E.; Mehta, N. K.; Myrskylä, M.; Ebeling, M.:

Cardiovascular mortality gap between the United States and other high life expectancy countries in 2000–2016

Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 77:Suppl. 2, S148–S157. (2022)

Mehta, N. K.; Myrskylä, M.:

An introduction to the supplemental issue on why does health in the US continue to lag behind

The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 77:Supplement_2, S113–S116. (2022)

Abrams, L. R.; Mehta, N. K.; Myrskylä, M.:

The growing rural-urban divide in U.S. life expectancy: contribution of cardiovascular disease and other major causes of death

International Journal of Epidemiology 50:6, 1970–1978. (2021)

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