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https://nypost.com/2021/03/11/new-yorkers-have-third-longest-life-expectancy-in-the-us-cdc/

 

I think we were headed in that direction for a long time.

Trying to find a GP to practice in our town of 5,000 people out here in the sticks is impossible.

 

Be sure your local politicians are plugged into all the incentive programs designed to get young doctors into rural areas.

 

A question and a comment ...

Why did the BMJ researchers choose "county" for their unit of analysis when "state" is the level at which policy is set?

The SciAm writer actually wrote this passage: "[E]xperts say some policy choices may have a larger role than individual behavior in causing poor health." Experts may say it (you can find an expert who says any damn fool thing), but I'll eat my nastiest Titleist hat if it's true.

 

Recent research had shown that the most recent generation is within 20 miles of where they grew up and have a decided lack of mobility due to housing costs. I’ll have to find the story.

 

I saw that story last week. It’s a new trend. It also will be interesting to see who work from home alters these numbers.

 

For those interested: https://apnews.com/article/census-2020-young-adult-migration-5b7c7f534278cb15cdc699eb132f0a78

The study found that by age 26 more than two-thirds of young adults in the U.S. lived in the same area where they grew up, 80% had moved less than 100 miles (161 kilometers) away and 90% resided less than 500 miles (804 kilometers) away.

 

Having gotten to my laptop and read the actual BMJ paper, it appears the authors chose "county" for their unit of analysis because those who had gone before them had. They did not address the likely disconnect between their level of analysis and the level of health/economic "policy."

 

Two words: Vehicular fatalities.

Two more: Workplace fatalities.

I'm not saying these are the only reasons for the difference, but they're not trivial. New Yorkers don't drive a lot, they don't tend to work in dangerous jobs.

 

Maybe young people live near where they grew up because their parents already made the move from less prosperous rural/urban areas to the suburbs 40 years ago? Just guessing.

 

This doesn’t take into account kids who moved 1,000 miles for college and returns home.

 

I guess it depends on how you define New Yorkers, lots of cars in Staten Island and Queens, and maybe even Brooklyn. Manhattan seems to have a lot of pedestrian fatalities, motor vehicles killing pedestrians. But not a lot of car on car fatalities.