Charts that Show Startling Rise in Death-Rate of Large Section of Middle-Aged White Americans

The Independent - The article quotes Jonathan Skinner, the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor in Economics, and professor of community and family medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Geisel, who reviewed and co-authored a commentary (with Ellen Meara, associate professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and adjunct associate professor of economics) that appears with a recent study that found a large segment of white middle-aged Americans has suffered a startling rise in its death rate since 1999. (Similar coverage in the Chicago Tribune, Go Sport Times, New York Magazine, WPTZ, WMUR, WBEZ, American Bazaar, SMN Weekly, and Pioneer News.)