“Is 50 the new 80? Increasing morbidity and mortality in midlife Americans"
Midlife mortality rates have been rising for white non-Hispanic men and women in the US since the late 1990s, with marked increases in deaths from accidental drug overdoses, alcohol-related liver diseases and suicides. Over the same period, self-assessed physical and mental health and reported ability to carry out activites of daily living have deteriorated, while reports of chronic pain and heavy drinking increased. In this lecture, I will compare changes in morbidity and mortality across sex, age, and race and ethnicity as well as across regions of the US and across countries - building blocks toward an understanding of the underlying causes at work.
Anne Case is the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and a Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Economics Department at Princeton University.
She is also the Director of the Research Program in Development Studies and a Faculty Fellow in two research centers sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School, the Center for Health and Wellbeing, and the Office of Population Research.
