HEALTH - Women's Lifespan in U.S.

"New Study Shows U.S. Lags Behind Other High-Income Countries in Female Lifespan" PBS Newshour 3/5/2013

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GWEN IFILL (Newshour):  And we close about with new findings about declining life spans for some women.  Those come from a pair of new studies.

The first reported that, in 43 percent of the nation's counties, many of them in the South and the West, women -- more women 75 and younger are dying sooner.  The second study found mortality for all Americans under 50, but particularly women, is more pronounced in the U.S. than other high-income countries.  Both were published in the journal "Health Affairs."

Editor in chief (Health Affairs) and a NewsHour regular Susan Dentzer joins me now.