Study Reveals Stark Differences in Life Expectancy Across U.S. States

8 geox 1 6/16/2025, 3:35:14 PM ysph.yale.edu ↗

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onecommentman · 4h ago
“Holford emphasized that these patterns are not simply historical artifacts. “The disparities we see today are the result of decades of cumulative effects — on smoking rates, health care access, environmental exposures, and public health investments,” he said. “Without conscious policy changes, these gaps will likely persist or even widen.””

The cited study performs no analysis nor provides conclusions about these “cumulative effects”: their existence, the magnitude of the effects nor the completeness of the set of cumulative effects considered. The Author is babbling at this point.