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Women's life expectancy up slightly locally
Jun 21, 2011 12:36 pm
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="480" caption="Greene and Columbia counties can be seen in green, as area's where women's life expectancy rose less than the national average from 1997-2007."]
[/caption]Julia Reischel in The Watershed Post reports that life expectancy for women in Greene and Columbia counties rose less then it did nationally from 1997 to 2007, according to a study published in Population Health Metrics by researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics Evaluation. Nearby Delaware County was one of 737 counties in the country where female life expectancy actually dropped. Reischel in The Watershed Post writes: "The study has grim news for Americans in general: Our average life expectancy is falling behind that of other First World countries." Read the entire story in The Watershed Post.
[/caption]Julia Reischel in The Watershed Post reports that life expectancy for women in Greene and Columbia counties rose less then it did nationally from 1997 to 2007, according to a study published in Population Health Metrics by researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics Evaluation. Nearby Delaware County was one of 737 counties in the country where female life expectancy actually dropped. Reischel in The Watershed Post writes: "The study has grim news for Americans in general: Our average life expectancy is falling behind that of other First World countries." Read the entire story in The Watershed Post.