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Tag Archives: homicide
Trends in life expectancy post-pandemic
In an earlier post, I examined excess mortality in the USA and its causes in the covid period in comparison with a group of the five largest European countries: Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom (“Europe 5”). Based … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, cause-eliminated life expectany, coronavirus mortality, COVID-19, drug overdose, Europe, excess deaths in USA, homicide, life expectancy trends, obesity, pandemic, suicide, Switzerland, underinsured, uninsured, universal health insurance, USA
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Huge drop in US life expectancy in 2020 and 2021
US life expectancy dropped nearly 3 years during the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic. The CDC has recently released US life expectancy estimates for 2021, finding a significant drop for the second year in a row. That decline … Continue reading
Excess mortality in the USA and its causes 2000 – 2020
Sam Preston and Yana Vierboom published a short paper in April which showed that Americans die at higher rates than Europeans and this translated into roughly 400,000 additional deaths in 2017 that would not have occurred if the USA had … Continue reading
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Tagged coronavirus mortality, COVID-19, drug overdose, Europe, excess deaths in USA, HMD, homicide, Human Mortality Database, life expectancy trends, obesity, pandemic, Preston, Preston and Vierboom, suicide, underinsured, uninsured, universal health insurance, USA, Vierboom
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Police killings in the USA
The current protests in the USA made me curious to take a look at police killing rates compared to other countries. Wikipedia summarizes available statistics for most recent years, and I did some spot checks of the primary sources. The … Continue reading
Posted in Global health trends
Tagged homicide, international comparisons, police killings, USA policing, violence
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Gun ownership and gun deaths
Given recent events, I took a look at the data relating to gun deaths overall and the extraordinarily high rates of mass shootings in the USA compared to the rest of the world. Despite President Trump blaming video games and … Continue reading
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Tagged global health statistics, gun ownership, homicide, mass shooting, small arms survey, violence
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Global patterns of violence against children
The recently released UNICEF report on violence against children used our estimates of child homicide rates for year 2012 from the WHO Global Health Observatory. Of course, these estimates are uncertain for countries without good death registration data. We also … Continue reading
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Tagged children, global health statistics, homicide, violence
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The long-term decline of violence and global homicide rates
I have just finished reading Steven Pinker’s book “ The Better Angels of our Nature: why violence has declined”. This very large book (802 pages) is an ambitious and serious attempt to show that violence in all its forms (nonfatal, … Continue reading
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Tagged global health statistics, homicide, violence
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Colin Mathers 