Second Opinion
The study’s authors believe that purposefulness — which they define as “a self-organizing life aim that stimulates goals” — has health benefits and should be consider a modifiable risk factor for premature death.
Health
For one thing, no doctor would write “diseases of insane” on a death certificate today.
Health
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
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
“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.
