Getting to Average Life Expectancy: It Takes Commitment

In 2012, the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine) report For the Public's Health: Investing in a Healthier Future recommended that the Secretary of the Department ofHealth and Human Services... adopt an interim explicit life expectancy target...

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Published inAmerican journal of public health (1971) Vol. 108; no. 1; pp. 17 - 18
Main Author Teutsch, Steven M
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States American Public Health Association 01.01.2018
Subjects
20th century
Academic achievement
Child poverty
Childhood
Discrimination
Educational opportunities
Equity
Expenditures
Health care expenditures
Health care policy
Health disparities
Health Policy
History
Housing
Human services
Imprisonment
Indexes
Interest groups
Life Expectancy
Life span
Medicine
Mortality
National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, U.S., Health and Medicine Division
Poverty
Public health
Racism
Social services
Transportation
United States
United States
Los Angeles California
United States > US
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Summary:In 2012, the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine) report For the Public's Health: Investing in a Healthier Future recommended that the Secretary of the Department ofHealth and Human Services... adopt an interim explicit life expectancy target and establish a specific per capita health expenditure target to be achieved by 2020 [to] engage all health system stakeholders in actions intended to achieve parity with averages among comparable nations.1(p33) In this issue of AJPH, Kindig et al. Childhood poverty, inadequate educational opportunities, unsafe communities with poor access to parks, high rates of incarceration, racism, lack of active transportation, unhealthy diets, and unaffordable housing exemplify structural problems that underlie our poor health indices. The goal was intended to capture the country's attention and galvanize action to address the underlying reasons we lag behind our competitor nations and, despite our enormous investments in clinical care and clinical research, suffer from poorer life expectancy and unacceptable health inequity.
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ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2017.304190