Here's a scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) and life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries. The lines represent averages.
One country sits alone in the bottom right quadrant due to its much higher health spending and below-average life expectancy.
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Rocker > American Hospital Association estimated gun violence cost hospitals $1,000,000,000 annually for 2016-2017. Add 20% for doc fees.
In 2020, total health care costs were $4,000,000,000,000.
Gun violence is an insignificant contribution to total costs.
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Life expectancy has dropped dramatically since 2019 due to Covid. It’s comparable to influenza in the ‘20s.
From 2020-21, US life expectancy dropped from 77.0 to 76.1 years, the lowest since 1996. “The 0.9 year drop in life expectancy in 2021, along with a 1.8 year drop in 2020, was the biggest two-year decline in life expectancy since 1921-1923.”
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/20220831.htm
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In 2017 & 2018, firearms accounted for more individual years of potential life lost (YPLL) than motor vehicle crashes.
“Traumatic injuries remain the leading cause of death in the USA for individuals up to the age of 46 years.”
2018: 1.42 million v 1.34 million YPLL
38,929 firearm deaths
White males, suicide (4.95 million YPLL, 2009-2018)
Black males, homicide (3.2 million YPLL, 2009-2018)
Objectives Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that firearm deaths are increasing in the USA. The aims of this study were to determine the magnitude of potential years of life lost due to firearms and to examine the evolution of firearm deaths on the basis of sex, race, and geographical location within the USA. Methods Data was extracted (2009–2018) from the National Vital Statistics Reports from the CDC and the Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System database. Years of potential life lost was calculated by the CDC standard of subtracting the age at death from the standard year of 80, and then summing the individual years of potential life lost (YPLL) across each cause of death. Results The YPLL in 2017 and 2018 was higher for firearms than motor vehicle crashes (MVCs). In 2018, the YPLL for firearms was 1.42 million and 1.34 million for MVC. Males comprised the majority (85.4%) of the 38 929 firearm deaths. White males had the most YPLL due to suicide, with 4.95 million YPLL during the course of the 10-year period; black males had the most YPLL due to homicide with 3.2 million YPLL during the same time period. The largest number of suicides by firearms was in older white males. Firearm-related injury deaths were highest in the South, followed by the West, Midwest, and Northeast, respectively. Conclusion Firearms are now the leading cause of YPLL in trauma. Firearm deaths have overtaken MVC as the mechanism for the main cause of potential years of life lost since 2017. Suicide in white males accounts for more YPLL than homicides. Deaths related to firearms are potentially preventable causes of death and prevention efforts should be redirected. Level of evidence Level III—Descriptive Study.
The graph doesn't distinguish between - for the USA - over priced healthcare or a healthcare system struggling to counter appalling lifestyle (too much sugar, processed foods etc.)
It clearly shows how much the USA is an outlier relative to the other (western) european countries.
The causes are well known, but bringing this in line seems to be very hard for USA politicians.
Or are they listening more to lobbyists and companies than civilians.
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For the life of me, I do NOT understand why this isn’t (a) common knowledge and (b) sufficient reason for major overhaul.
I was thinking about health care earlier today when pondering the nature of public goods. One characteristic is that duplication leads to greater social cost (think “infrastructure”). Are hospitals (equipment, ER, beds) infrastructure? I think an argument could be made that they are. (Have not run numbers.)
@infinimatt @conradhackett
Puzzling to throw "obesity" in as a cause of death akin to homicide, opioid overdose, and road accidents. Obesity isn't a cause of death, and its measurement and attribution to mortality is fraught to say the least. A cross-national comparison of "death rate from obesity" is going to be far from reliable, most likely mixing in issues of systemic racism, sexism, and classism.
As data analysts we have to be careful with our measures and think about the social context
The same life expectancy in Czech Republic (with its unhealthy fat/pork/dumplings/beer/and more beer...diet) and USA.
But USA have to spend about 2,5x more 😱💸
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