Hacker NewsWhy have death rates from accidental falls tripled?
https://usafacts.org/articles/why-have-death-rates-from-accidental-falls-tripled/
#HackerNews #accidentalfalls #deathrates #healthnews #safetyresearch #publichealth
N-gated Hacker NewsOh, look! It only took our Sherlock-wannabe three years to notice a giant monument commemorating asbestos victims 🕵️♂️👏. But hey, better late than never, right? Meanwhile, let's all pretend we're shocked that #Barking, home to the mighty Cape Asbestos Company, has sky-high asbestos death rates 🚬💀.
https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2025/10/asbestosis.html #SherlockWannabe #AsbestosVictims #DeathRates #AwarenessMatters #BetterLateThanNever #HackerNews #ngated
https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2025/10/asbestosis.html #SherlockWannabe #AsbestosVictims #DeathRates #AwarenessMatters #BetterLateThanNever #HackerNews #ngated
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Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over
#HackerNews #DeathRates #HospitalERs #PrivateEquity #HealthcareNews #StudyFindings
KM6ECCWe live in a beautiful and diverse small desert community. We are X-gen teachers, so our incomes plus the low cost of housing put us in the normative middle class. Same for many of the late career and retired boomers here, solidly middle. There are millennials (and poor #boomers.) With exceptions proving the rule Gen Y live in poverty with their children. They don't have jobs that provide health care. And there are drugs and rollovers. #USpol #USpoverty #deathrates
https://slate.com/technology/2025/08/millennials-gen-z-death-rates-america-high.html
Wealthy Americans have death rates on par with poor Europeans
#HackerNews #WealthInequality #HealthDisparities #DeathRates #EconomicDivide #EuropeanHealth
MediaFaro AnalysisWhen storks fail to come: A demographic crisis hits Lithuanian regions.
Lithuanian regions are facing a demographic crisis, with many areas facing death rates several times higher than birth rates.
Some municipalities offer cash support for families but the effects are limited.
#Lithuania #Demographics #DemographicCrisis #DeathRates #BirthRates
NonilexWaPo compared #DeathRates for people living in the poorest 10% of counties to rates for people living in the wealthiest 10% of counties over the past 4 decades. In that time, the gap between #rich & #poor death rates grew significantly wider, w/rich communities' death rates improving for many years while poor areas largely stayed the same & then worsened. Death rates also grew many times faster than the difference in #income between the poorest & richest areas.
Soh Kam Yung"Most children in the world still died at extremely high rates well into the 20th century. Even as recently as 1950 – a time that some readers might well remember – one in four children died globally.
More recently, during our lifetimes, the world has achieved an entirely unprecedented improvement. In a brief episode of human history the global death rate of children declined from around 50% to 4%."
Elizabeth Wrigley-FieldIs Covid "like the flu"?
We asked how many years (pre-2020) it would take for flu & pneumonia cumulative death rates to equal 3 years of Covid
Answer: 17 years
In one state, Hawaii: Covid deaths were like recent (unusually high) flu deaths
Otherwise: nope
#Covid #Covid19 #influenza #pneumonia #pandemic #DeathRates #mortality #PublicHealth #demography #hawaii
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.24.23289045v1
Is Covid-19 Mortality "Like the Flu"? A Cumulative Death Rates Comparison
It has been common both to make and to resist comparisons that equate the Covid-19 pandemic to influenza. We take the comparison between Covid-19 and flu seriously by asking how many years of influenza and pneumonia deaths are needed for cumulative deaths to those two causes to equal the cumulative toll of the Covid-19 pandemic between March 2020 and February 2023 -- that is, three years of pandemic deaths. We find that in one state alone -- Hawaii -- three years of Covid-19 mortality is equivalent to influenza and pneumonia mortality in the three years preceding the Covid-19 pandemic. For all other states, at least nine years of flu and pneumonia are needed to match Covid-19; for the United States as a whole, seventeen years are needed; and for four states, more than 21 years (the maximum observable) are needed. These results provide an easy-to-understand calibration of flu as a heuristic for Covid-19, and vice versa. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. ### Funding Statement This study was funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development via the Minnesota Population Center (P2C HD041023). ### Author Declarations I confirm all relevant ethical guidelines have been followed, and any necessary IRB and/or ethics committee approvals have been obtained. Yes The details of the IRB/oversight body that provided approval or exemption for the research described are given below: The study used only openly available human data that were originally located at the CDC Wonder repository at https://wonder.cdc.gov I confirm that all necessary patient/participant consent has been obtained and the appropriate institutional forms have been archived, and that any patient/participant/sample identifiers included were not known to anyone (e.g., hospital staff, patients or participants themselves) outside the research group so cannot be used to identify individuals. Yes I understand that all clinical trials and any other prospective interventional studies must be registered with an ICMJE-approved registry, such as ClinicalTrials.gov. I confirm that any such study reported in the manuscript has been registered and the trial registration ID is provided (note: if posting a prospective study registered retrospectively, please provide a statement in the trial ID field explaining why the study was not registered in advance). Yes I have followed all appropriate research reporting guidelines, such as any relevant EQUATOR Network research reporting checklist(s) and other pertinent material, if applicable. Yes All data and statistical code are available at https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/5JS8B <https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/5JS8B>