Summary

Americans spend more time living with disease than people in other countries. A new study by the American Medical Association reveals that Americans live with illness for an average of 12.4 years, up from 10.9 years in 2000.

Women in the US experience a larger healthspan-lifespan gap than men.

Mental, substance-use, and musculoskeletal disorders are major contributors to this gap.

Globally, the healthspan-lifespan gap has also widened over the past two decades.

  • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Counter offer. They all disappear themselves to some private island now and have no contact with the outside world outside of stuff needed to survive comfortably; in exchange we don’t literally burn them alive.

    • ramsorge
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      3 hours ago

      I’m willing to accept this offer. They can take air mattresses, I’m not a monster.