Less educated people experience lower life expectancy
Washington, August 7 (ANI): Education and socioeconomic status
can affect life expectancy of people, according to a new study.
Despite advances in health care and increases in life expectancy
overall, Americans with less than a high school education have
life expectancies similar to adults in the 1950s and 1960s, the
study found. "The most highly educated white men live about 14
years longer than the least educated black men. The least
educated black women live about 10 years less than the most
educated white women," said S. Jay Olshansky, professor of
epidemiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of
Public Health and lead author of the study. The research, funded
by The MacArthur Foundation Research Network on an Aging
Society, examined life expectancy by race, sex and education and
examined trends in disparities from 1990 through 2008. "Over the
last couple of decades, almost all longevity boats have risen,"
said Olshansky, but there have