Health
What killed Minnesotans in 1888, what killed them in 2016, and why it changed
For one thing, no doctor would write “diseases of insane” on a death certificate today.
mortality
Health
It’s not just opioids: ‘Diseases of despair’ claim a growing number of Minnesotan lives
While mortality rates for many causes of death in the United States have been in decline overall, mortality related to things like drugs, alcohol and suicide have been rising.
Second Opinion
Cancer deaths in U.S. continue to decline
The overall cancer death rate declined during the period 2010-2014 by 1.8 percent per year in men, 1.4 percent per year in women and 1.6 percent per year in children.
Second Opinion
Rising mortality rate among white, middle-aged Americans is fueled by ‘deaths of despair,’ say economists
“Ultimately, we see our story as about the collapse of the white, high school educated, working class after its heyday in the early 1970s…” the researchers wrote.