Where you live and how long you live
A Harvard School of Public Health study (pdf) looks at race mapped to location, and comes up with a surprisingly wide span of life expectancies based on where people live. Obviously, location is only part of the story, but it is interesting to see some numbers, like more than a third of the average lifespan.
Native American males in the cluster of Bennet, Jackson, Mellette, Shannon, Todd, and Washabaugh Counties in South Dakota had a life expectancy of 58 years in 1997-2001, compared to Asian females in Bergen County, New Jersey, with a life expectancy of 91 years, a gap of 33 years.
Wow.
Perhaps there are some public health issues that need looking at here.
Via WIStv.com
