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- Unintentional Injuries. According to the CDC, unintentional injuries accounted for 44.5% of deaths among people aged 20-24 years old in 2020. Many of these deaths were caused by poisonings related to certain drugs, including narcotics and hallucinogens.
- Homicide. Homicide, or murder, was the second-leading cause of death in 2020 and was responsible for 16.5% of deaths for people in the 20-24 age group. Most of these homicides were committed with firearms.
- Suicide. Suicide was the third leading cause of death among people ages 20-24 in 2020, accounting for 16.3% of deaths. A person of any age can have suicidal thoughts, but there is a rising mental health crisis among youth in the U.S.
- Cancer/Mmalignant Neoplasms. Cancer (malignant neoplasms) caused about 3.2% of deaths in the 20-24 age group in 2020. Early Signs of Cancer by Type. Although there is no definitive way to prevent cancer, you can reduce your risk.
Nov 19, 2021 · A recent study finds that globally, boys and young men made up two-thirds of all deaths among young people in 2019. First, the good news: The death rate among young people around the world has ...
Sep 28, 2016 · Study could explain why even with healthy lifestyles some people die younger than others, and raises future possibility of extending the human lifespan
- Hannah Devlin
- 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 ...
Apr 16, 2023 · It accounts for about half of the suicides committed by young people and the majority of homicides. So firearms play a large role in contributing to this, but not the only one. Clearly, there's a ...
Mar 2, 2021 · Although progress occurred at the turn of the century in reducing the mortality gap between Black and white Americans, death rates in working-age Black people are now increasing, effectively erasing that progress. Drugs, Alcohol, and Suicide Drugs and alcohol are major contributors to the rise in working-age mortality.
Dec 9, 2020 · Ischaemic heart disease and stroke are the only causes of death in the top 10 for which the total numbers have gone down between 2000 and 2019, by 16% (or 327 000 deaths) and by 21% (or 205 000 deaths) respectively. High-income is the only category of income group in which there have been decreasing numbers of deaths from these two diseases.
