by Larry Shultz | Mar 8, 2023 | Education, Public Health, US West
Suicides in the USA increased 31% from 2000 to 2020. Currently about 46,000 people a year successfully commit suicide. LS 2015 Washington Post county level map of US suicide rates County and State Data Map: Defining Mental Health Across Communities | Mental...
by Larry Shultz | Mar 8, 2023 | Public Health
NHTSA’s 2021 Estimate of Traffic Deaths Shows 16-Year High About 2.5 million are injured each year due to vehicles. Some of these injuries are long term or lifetime in duration. (LS)
by Larry Shultz | Mar 8, 2023 | Public Health
Up to 40 percent of annual deaths from each of five leading US causes are preventable | CDC Online Newsroom | CDC
by Larry Shultz | Mar 8, 2023 | Public Health
The disease burden of noncommunicable diseases – PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization
by Larry Shultz | Mar 8, 2023 | Public Health
Tobacco-Related Mortality | CDC Cigarette smoking causes about one of every five deaths in the United States each year.1,6 Cigarette smoking is estimated to cause the following:1 More than 480,000 deaths annually (including deaths from secondhand smoke) 278,544 deaths...
by Larry Shultz | Mar 8, 2023 | Ecology, Energy, Scale
Past world economic production constrains current energy demands: Persistent scaling with implications for economic growth and climate change mitigation (plos.org)
by Larry Shultz | Mar 8, 2023 | Public Health
What Are METs, and How Are They Calculated? (healthline.com) After about 3 MET/hours/day marginal gains in life expectancy start to drop off. Finally, above a threshold life expectancy decrease. Note this also means a half hour of 6 MET exercise...
by Larry Shultz | Mar 8, 2023 | Public Health
Consumption of a drink a day in comparison to none appears to provide decreased all-cause mortality (from other studies). Perhaps largely due to cardiac mortality benefits. Cardiac based death risk is the largest one by age 65, perhaps even by 62. 100g = 6 drinks a...
by Larry Shultz | Mar 7, 2023 | Public Health
Association of BMI with overall and cause-specific mortality: a population-based cohort study of 3·6 million adults in the UK (thelancet.com)
