News analysis: The "historic" decline in the United States' expectation life span is exposed to deep -level social diseases

Xinhua News Agency, Los Angeles, September 5th News Analysis: The "historic" of the United States' life expectancy "historic" decline in deepening society

Xinhua News Agency reporter Tan Jingjing

According to recent reports of US agencies, the per capita life expectancy of the United States in 2021 was shortened by nearly 1 year compared with the previous year, which was the second consecutive year of this data. The Associated Press reported that the average life expectancy of the United States in 2020 and 2021 fell nearly 3 years. The last decline was during the Second World War.

Public opinion analysis believes that the continuous decline in the life expectancy of the United States on the one hand is related to the new crown epidemic, on the other hand, it also exposes the inequality and uneven resource distribution in the US public health system, highlighting the long -term disease of American society.

Social issues of epidemic enlargement

The per capita life expectancy refers to the newborn baby that year, combined with the mortality rate of the year, and the average number of years of survival can be survived, which is one of the important indicators to measure the health level of residents. Robert Hermo, a researcher at the University of North Carolina, said it is the "most basic indicator of population health" in the United States.

A report issued by the National Health Statistics of the United States Disease Control and Prevention Center showed that the per capita life expectancy of the United States in 2021 was 76.1 years, which was 0.9 years shortened from 2020; Essence From 2019 to 2021, the per capita life expectancy of the United States fell 2.7 years. Among them, the per capita life expectancy of men was shortened by 3.1 years, and the age of 73.2 was reduced.

The report believes that the new crown epidemic is the primary cause of short -lived life expectancy in the United States in 2021. Other main causes include accidental damage, heart disease, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis, and suicide.

Steven Woolf, Honorary Director of the Federal University Social and Health Center of the Federal University of Virginia, said this is a "historic" decline. Like the United States, other high -income countries have also been severely damaged in the first year of the new crown epidemic, but most of these countries have begun to recover slowly. "No country has continued to decline in life expectancy per capita like the United States."

Several experts also pointed out that the new crown epidemic is a major factor that led to an increase in the mortality rate of the American population, but the impact of the epidemic on the public is far beyond the infected virus itself. Deep -level contradictions such as public health governance crisis.

The vaccine vaccination efficiency is not high, the prevention and control measures are poorly implemented, and even the most basic "mask order" is controversial ... In many aspects, "the United States is obviously a special case" -the Talking about the gap between the US epidemic prevention and control and other countries in other countries Woolf said like this.

Johns Hopkins University's Deputy Dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Public Health of Public Health of the University of Public Health said that the life expectancy of the United States' expectations continues to decline and the publicity of the new crown vaccination in the society. Healthcare and other shortcomings of medical insurance for the whole people, and other shortcomings in protecting public health.

Shafstan raised a series of questions on social media Twitter: "Refuse to take reasonable public health measures to politically take this problem, does this hurt many people? Yes. The United States is providing national medical insurance for national medical insurance Does the failure lead to many unnecessary deaths? Yes. Is it time to build an effective public health system? "Yes."

The health of the disadvantaged group is worrying

Woolf said that although the US public health system has developed for so many years, Americans are exposed to various health crises, including malnutrition and lack of physical exercise, as well as common risk factors such as smoking, flooding of firearms, poverty, environmental pollution, etc. Essence

Woolf particularly pointed out that racism and other situations have made the situation of minority and vulnerable groups more difficult. He said that various factors have led to a high burden on American diseases, and in the past 20 years, the United States and some high -income countries have a shorter life expectancy than their per capita.

Reports by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that the per capita life expectancy of non -Spanish American Indians or Alaska's aboriginal population is the largest. From 2019 to 2021, the per capita life expectancy of the group is 6.6 years.

Ann Brock, former director of the Diabetes and Prevention Department of the Federal Indian Health Services Department, said that the long -term problems existing in the US public health system make the American Aboriginal and Alaska aboriginal virus infection. Social discrimination and medical care gap, etc.

The New York Times reported that about one -seventh of the Americas and Alaska Aboriginal people suffer from diabetes, which is the highest incidence among the American ethnic groups. Many people in this group have excessive obesity or overweight. Culinary conditions are usually living with generations. These factors have increased their health risks and make them a high -risk group of new crown viruses.

President Perry Halgitis, dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Latugs, said that shortening per capita life expectancy is a sign of the decline of American society. The structural inequality and various social problems that the United States have always exacerbated the risk of people suffering from diseases.

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