Why are death rates rising in developed economies?
Austerity causes biggest rise in England’s death rate since WWII – health expert. RT, February 16, 2016, https://www.rt.com/uk/332633-austerity-death-rate-rise/ Published time: 16 Feb, 2016 15:23
Preliminary figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) indicate mortality rates in 2015 rose by 5.4 percent on 2014 - an increase of nearly 27,000 deaths, bringing the total to 528,340.
Death rates in England and Wales had been falling since the 1970s, but this trend reversed in 2011 when mortality rates started rising.Health advisers are now saying the rising death rate could be caused by cuts to vital social services
Latest data at the CDC for US mortality is from 2013 so no direct comparison with England's data is available there: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
However, CNN reported recently that maternal mortality starting rising in the US in 2011:
Kelly Wallace, "Why is the maternal mortality rate going up in the United States?" CNN, December 11, 2015, http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/01/health/maternal-mortality-rate-u-s-increasing-why/
An increasing mortality rate for American mothers in 2015? How could that be?
First, the numbers: More than 25 years ago, in 1987, there were 7.2 deaths of mothers per 100,000 live births in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2011, that number more than doubled, jumping to 17.8 deaths per 100,000 births.
Death rates for middle-aged white populations in the US are also rising, although this trend has been attributed to increased abuse of prescription drugs:
Kimberly Leonard, "What Reports About White People Dying Missed," US News November 13, 2015, http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/11/13/yes-death-rates-for-middle-aged-whites-are-rising-but-why
Written by Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton, the report found mortality rates for whites began rising in 1999 and continued to do so through 2013. The rise was driven by drug and alcohol overdoses, suicide, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis.... The authors presented their data without directly stating the root cause for the destructive behaviors they identified as driving the trend, though they noted the prevalence of opioid use the U.S. has seen. They noted as well that a large group of people report difficulties with pain, which can lead them to take prescription painkillers or place them at risk of suicide. Prescription drugs, conversely, can make pain worse as their effects begin to diminish, and also have the potential to invoke suicidal thoughts. They additionally can be a gateway to illegal drugs such as heroin.
Although austerity, increased poverty, and drug use may very likely impact mortality rates, one has to wonder whether Fukushima and other rapidly escalating sources of environmental contamination are also contributing factors. Daiichi continues to spit out emissions, including quite a few sparks recently:
Prescription drugs: psychiatric medication, statin drugs, etc.; bad food in part due to soil depletion; certainly the increase in radiation; less sleep, less leisure, more financial distress, fewer home cooked meals . . . fluoridation of water as well as other chemicals like glyphosate seeping in; the list would keep a toxicologist busy for a while. Radiation effects are so subtle that they don't catch the attention the way announcing Zika or Ebola does. And gov and corporations have a protective attitude with respect to the atom area. Conditions in England are getting pretty bad.
ReplyDeletePeople in Japan and England do have higher incidence of teeth malformation in childre. Can be traced to radioactive contamination.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. Can you provide any evidence? Would love to see some statistics...
DeleteAll the drugs mentioned are used to treat the symptoms of badly polluted food and chronic inflammation from pollutants. This is especially true for so-called lower level radionucleide and heavy metal pollution that is now omni-present in the nuclear, the so-called developed west and japan. We have all lived in a fog all of our lives.
ReplyDeleteEnglish young people now are said to be even less literate than their American counterparts. Another Harvard study showing IQ loss from fluoride. I guess they are being prepared for feudalism which seems to be just around the next corner.
ReplyDeletefluoride is bad but lead destroyed the roman empire. radionucleides destroyed the belarus genome. things are getting worse.
ReplyDelete"Lead and radioactivity share a lot in common when it comes to harming children and other living things" Kevin Kamps
ReplyDeletehttp://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/26/after-flint-dont-let-them-nuke-the-great-lakes-next/
"Dick Cheney Poisoned Hundreds of US Troops in Iraq — They’re Dying — And the Media is Silent" http://www.activistpost.com/2016/02/dick-cheney-poisoned-hundreds-of-us-troops-in-iraq-theyre-dying-and-the-media-is-silent.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ActivistPost+%28Activist+Post%29
ReplyDeleteAnother example of the casual attitude towards human life that the Elite or Plutocrats take.
I think we are witnessing the collapse of what we call Western Civilization. All the values that people who have some age now grew up with are slowly vanishing. Wealth has become the hedge on survival. The thinking goes something like this: the system is being undermined by primarily the banks; those who have wealth diversely invested stand a chance of living a good life somewhere, perhaps not in the USA. Smart people will grab what they can. Etc. Another dark ages is very likely, and in the meantime we have the descent of the police state to keep order as things get worse which they will. The next financial crash is already on the way and will be worse than the last one. Find a good place to hide! In this atmosphere pollution has to take second or third place. So it looks like it will not only be dark but also poisonous.
DeleteIt does seem that way. Pillaging all the way down to the point of no return.
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