Troubling Trend: Avoidable Deaths Are Rising in the U.S.

Troubling Trend: Avoidable Deaths Are Rising in the U.S.

Researchers at Brown University’s School of Public Health found that from 2009 to 2021, avoidable deaths increased in every U.S. state, even as they declined in most other high-income countries. When someone dies, medical professionals often examine the cause of death to assess whether it might have been preventable, either through public health measures like [...]

Avoidable Deaths Rise Across U.S. - Public Health Watch

Avoidable deaths up in US, falling in other high-income nationsRates of deaths that could be prevented or treated have risen across every U.S. state in recent decades, according to a new study.At the same time, rates of the so-called avoidable deaths — which encompass deaths that could have been avoided through prevention or public health as well deaths that could have been avoided with timely, effective medical care — have been improving in oth…