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Dec 20, 2019 · Death in America is “still informed by an ancient, persistent, and religiously inspired redemptive ethos which shapes how we understand the value of life and solemnize its endings,” James W ...
Jun 29, 2017 · New research into what it feels like to be dying. Posted Jun 29, 2017. When it comes to predicting how we will feel in the future, we are not particularly good at it. This happens with positive...
May 12, 2022 · Paul Rand: Dawdy set off on a journey across the country, studying what our death practices and rituals say about America today. Shannon Dawdy: Use that mortuary archeology viewpoint, ask what's going on with the dead, how are people treating the dead, and what does this say about the living.
6 hours ago · Like Stacey, she lived in a high-rise block of flats, in an area ranked among Scotland’s most deprived. Liz was a fashion lover – the brighter the colours, the better. She had lived in her ...
- A Poor Start in Life For Many Young Americans
- A Dysfunctional and Costly Healthcare System
- Societal Systems That Undermine Wellbeing and Accelerate Inequality
- An Inadequate Policy Response to Growing Inequality and Precarity
- Structural Racism, Racial Capitalism, and Their Attendant Injustices
Beyond the latest data on rising pediatric mortality rates, it is clear that the U.S. is failing its youngest citizens on multiple fronts. For at least a decade now, cross-national comparisons of child and adolescent wellbeing in rich countries show that the U.S. ranks at or near the bottom on most measures. Such measures include material wellbeing...
Among the many factors driving health and survival is healthcare. The U.S. has long been known for having one of the most complex, fragmented, and expensive healthcare systems in the world. For millions of Americans, quality, affordable, accessible healthcare is simply out of reach (and the uninsured are more likely to die young than the insured), ...
Beyond healthcare, many other aspects of life and the policy-driven systems that underpin them are compromising the health and wellbeing of Americans. Lives are diminished and lost because of the U.S. approach to food and nutrition, housing and civic infrastructure, education and training, employment and entrepreneurship, crime and safety, economic...
The large and growing U.S. disadvantage in health and survival is, in part, a reflection and accelerant of economic inequality and precarity. U.S. income and wealth inequality is high, has risen substantially over recent decades, and exceeds levels in other advanced democracies. Some might argue that high levels of inequality are acceptable as long...
Although the U.S. health disadvantage affects all Americans, even privileged ones, the most marginalized communities have always paid a much higher cost. The latest data on U.S. life expectancy by race/ethnicity confirm this and are a powerful reminder of the ongoing influence of systemic racism in the American landscape. As Dr. Camara Jones, past ...
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Apr 1, 2012 · Imagine yourself dead. What picture comes to mind? Your funeral with a casket surrounded by family and friends? Complete darkness and void? In either case, you are still conscious and observing...
3 days ago · At a glance. Suicide is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. View the most recent suicide data overall and by selected demographic characteristics. This includes age, gender, race/ethnicity, and method of suicide.
