Health Populi March 10, 2020
Anne Case and Angus Deaton were working in a cabin in Montana the summer of 2014. Upon analyzing mortality data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, they noticed that death rates were rising among middle-aged white people.
“We must have hit a wrong key,” they note in the introduction of their book, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism.
This reversal of life span in America ran counter to a decades-long trend of lower mortality in the U.S., a 20th century accomplishment, Case and Deaton recount.
In the 300 pages that follow, the researchers deeply dive into and weave the data through different demographic and clinical lenses — race, gender, age, social connectedness, work history, and the most...
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