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US life expectancy just dropped for the second year in a row. Let's stop the trend now

  • Written by David Bishai, Professor of Health Economics, Johns Hopkins University
Deaths from opioid, suicide and other public health threats could have been avoided.Syda Productions/shutterstock.com

U.S. gross domestic product is at an all-time high. U.S. life expectancy is not.

Life expectancy has fallen for the second time in two years – from a high of 78.9 years in 2014 to 78.6 years in 2016. It fell for men and...

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