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	Episode:		Podcast 194: Rising middle-age mortality rates are worrying
	Category:		Health
	Duration:		00:13:24
	Publish Date:		2016-02-03 09:11:06
	Description:		Ever since Anne Case and Angus Deaton published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last November there has been a spate of commentary over their major finding: mortality rates among middle-aged whites in the U.S. are rising while everyone else’s are improving. The Commonwealth Fund has just published an “issue brief” on the topic, and we’ve got the authors — senior researcher David Squires and Fund president David Blumenthal — to talk things over with us. Commonwealth Fund issue brief (free) PNAS study (free)
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