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ArticleAmerican journal of public health2023

Falling Behind: The Growing Gap in Life Expectancy Between the United States and Other Countries, 1933-2021.

Steven H Woolf

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Article in American journal of public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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38citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Insights into US life expectancy stagnation from birth cohort mortality dynamics.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  10. Multi-Morbidity at Death and the US Disadvantage in Mortality.European journal of population = Revue europeenne de demographie · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Steven H WoolfSteven H. Woolf is with the Center on Society and Health and the Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.

Funding

Wright Regional Center for Clinical and Translational ScienceUM1TR004360 · NCATS · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI FREDERICK Gerard MOELLER · 2023 to 2026
$16.3M
NCATS NIH HHS UM1 TR004360
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Life ExpectancyPolicyHumansMortalityUnited States

Identifiers

PMID37262403
PMCPMC10413748

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