Back to search

Life Expectancy and Mortality Rates in the United States, 1959-2017

Data up to Jan 2025

Published2019
Citations778
References157

Total Citations Per Year

Abstract

References (157)

Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America

1995 • 3,187 citations

Guidelines for snowballing in systematic literature studies and a replication in software engineering

2014 • 2,926 citations

Strangers in their own land : anger and mourning on the American right

2016 • 2,419 citations

Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century

2015 • 2,383 citations

The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014

2016 • 2,298 citations

Increases in Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths — United States, 2010–2015

2016 • 2,112 citations

A Potential Decline in Life Expectancy in the United States in the 21st Century

2005 • 1,923 citations

Income inequality and health: A causal review

2014 • 1,802 citations

Effectiveness and efficiency of search methods in systematic reviews of complex evidence: audit of primary sources

2005 • 1,693 citations

Epidemiology of anxiety disorders in the 21st century

2015 • 1,688 citations

Tuning In, Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital in America

1995 • 1,615 citations

Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health. Final report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health

2010 • 1,614 citations

Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths — United States, 2013–2017

2018 • 1,559 citations

Central role of the brain in stress and adaptation: Links to socioeconomic status, health, and disease

2010 • 1,508 citations

Socioeconomic Disparities in Health in the United States: What the Patterns Tell Us

2010 • 1,383 citations

Health Care Spending in the United States and Other High-Income Countries

2018 • 1,306 citations

Mortality and Morbidity in the 21st Century

2017 • 1,235 citations

The State of US Health, 1990-2016

2018 • 1,202 citations

Our kids: the American dream in crisis

2015 • 1,154 citations

Precarious Employment: Understanding an Emerging Social Determinant of Health

2014 • 1,130 citations

Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital

2000 • 1,030 citations

The health of Hispanics in the southwestern United States: an epidemiologic paradox.

1986 • 1,023 citations

National Vital Statistics Reports NCHS.pdf

2012 • 984 citations

United States Life Tables

2013 • 936 citations

The Dignity of Working Men

2009 • 905 citations

Measuring performance on the Healthcare Access and Quality Index for 195 countries and territories and selected subnational locations: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

2018 • 812 citations

The Gap Gets Bigger: Changes In Mortality And Life Expectancy, By Education, 1981–2000

2008 • 794 citations

Trends in Opioid Prescribing by Race/Ethnicity for Patients Seeking Care in US Emergency Departments

2008 • 794 citations

Opioid Crisis: No Easy Fix to Its Social and Economic Determinants

2017 • 754 citations

The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective

2013 • 737 citations

Neurobiological and Systemic Effects of Chronic Stress

2017 • 690 citations

Depression as a disease of modernity: Explanations for increasing prevalence

2012 • 683 citations

Mortality in the United States

1840 • 667 citations

Differences In Life Expectancy Due To Race And Educational Differences Are Widening, And Many May Not Catch Up

2012 • 654 citations

INEQUALITY IN EARNINGS AT THE CLOSE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

1999 • 610 citations

Changing dynamics of the drug overdose epidemic in the United States from 1979 through 2016

2018 • 580 citations

Vital Signs:Trends in State Suicide Rates — United States, 1999–2016 and Circumstances Contributing to Suicide — 27 States, 2015

2018 • 577 citations

Trends in depression prevalence in the USA from 2005 to 2015: widening disparities in vulnerable groups

2017 • 574 citations

Birth cohort increases in psychopathology among young Americans, 1938–2007: A cross-temporal meta-analysis of the MMPI

2009 • 532 citations

Understanding the Rural–Urban Differences in Nonmedical Prescription Opioid Use and Abuse in the United States

2013 • 517 citations

The triple wave epidemic: Supply and demand drivers of the US opioid overdose crisis

2019 • 516 citations

The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality

2017 • 486 citations

Vital Signs: Demographic and Substance Use Trends Among Heroin Users - United States, 2002-2013.

2015 • 449 citations

Money, schooling, and health: Mechanisms and causal evidence

2010 • 437 citations

Population health in an era of rising income inequality: USA, 1980–2015

2017 • 419 citations

The validity of race and Hispanic origin reporting on death certificates in the United States.

2008 • 417 citations

Hispanic health in the USA: a scoping review of the literature

2016 • 401 citations

Rising life expectancy: a global history

2002 • 400 citations

Where Health Disparities Begin: The Role Of Social And Economic Determinants—And Why Current Policies May Make Matters Worse

2011 • 378 citations

Recent trends in life expectancy across high income countries: retrospective observational study

2018 • 352 citations

Vital Signs: Racial Disparities in Age-Specific Mortality Among Blacks or African Americans — United States, 1999–2015

2017 • 337 citations

International profiles of health care systems, 2012

2012 • 332 citations

Rising Life Expectancy

2001 • 331 citations

Health and social services expenditures: associations with health outcomes

2011 • 320 citations

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

2015 • 318 citations

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland

2020 • 309 citations

Leading Causes of Death and All-Cause Mortality in American Indians and Alaska Natives

2014 • 279 citations

Quality of death rates by race and Hispanic origin: a summary of current research, 1999.

1999 • 276 citations

From new federalism to devolution: twenty-five years of intergovernmental reform

1999 • 269 citations

Opioid-related mortality in rural America: Geographic heterogeneity and intervention strategies

2018 • 257 citations

Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States, 2000-2017

2019 • 253 citations

Macroeconomic conditions and opioid abuse

2017 • 244 citations

Trends in Life Expectancy and Lifespan Variation by Educational Attainment: United States, 1990–2010

2016 • 237 citations

Prescription Opioid Use among Adults with Mental Health Disorders in the United States

2017 • 224 citations

Trends in premature mortality in the USA by sex, race, and ethnicity from 1999 to 2014: an analysis of death certificate data

2017 • 216 citations

Psychological stress in early life as a predisposing factor for the development of chronic pain: Clinical and preclinical evidence and neurobiological mechanisms

2016 • 215 citations

The Epidemic of Despair Among White Americans: Trends in the Leading Causes of Premature Death, 1999–2015

2017 • 201 citations

Striking It Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States

2018 • 193 citations

Adult mortality differentials among Hispanic subgroups and non-Hispanic whites.

2000 • 184 citations

Factors Associated With County-Level Differences in U.S. Drug-Related Mortality Rates

2018 • 178 citations

Chapter 3 Three centuries of inequality in Britain and America

2000 • 172 citations

Drivers of the fatal drug epidemic

2019 • 170 citations

The rise of neoliberalism: how bad economics imperils health and what to do about it

2015 • 166 citations

Association of Household Income With Life Expectancy and Cause-Specific Mortality in Norway, 2005-2015

2019 • 162 citations

Subjective social status and health

2014 • 160 citations

Educational Disparities in Adult Mortality Across U.S. States: How Do They Differ, and Have They Changed Since the Mid-1980s?

2019 • 158 citations

Worsening Trends in Adult Health-Related Quality of Life and Self-Rated Health—United States, 1993–2001

2004 • 158 citations

Rural and small town America

1990 • 155 citations

Changes in midlife death rates across racial and ethnic groups in the United States: systematic analysis of vital statistics

2018 • 155 citations

The role of obesity in exceptionally slow US mortality improvement

2018 • 152 citations

Stayin' alive: the 1970s and the last days of the working class

2011 • 151 citations

Widening of Socioeconomic Inequalities in U.S. Death Rates, 1993–2001

2008 • 146 citations

Time Period and Birth Cohort Differences in Depressive Symptoms in the U.S., 1982–2013

2014 • 145 citations

Are Americans Feeling Less Healthy? The Puzzle of Trends in Self-rated Health

2009 • 143 citations

The Health Impact of Resolving Racial Disparities: An Analysis of US Mortality Data

2004 • 141 citations

Underlying Factors in Drug Overdose Deaths

2017 • 141 citations

Stress-Induced Allodynia – Evidence of Increased Pain Sensitivity in Healthy Humans and Patients with Chronic Pain after Experimentally Induced Psychosocial Stress

2013 • 139 citations

Bowling alone, dying together: The role of social capital in mitigating the drug overdose epidemic in the United States

2017 • 134 citations

Health inequities in the age of austerity: The need for social protection policies

2017 • 134 citations

Drug Overdose Deaths Involving Fentanyl, 2011-2016.

2019 • 132 citations

Explaining recent mortality trends among younger and middle-aged White Americans

2017 • 128 citations

Trends in Maternal Mortality by Sociodemographic Characteristics and Cause of Death in 27 States and the District of Columbia

2017 • 128 citations

Unequal hopes and lives in the USA: optimism, race, place, and premature mortality

2018 • 128 citations

Obesity and kidney disease: hidden consequences of the epidemic

2017 • 127 citations

International Differences in Mortality at Older Ages

2011 • 118 citations

Symptoms of Depression Are Associated With Opioid Use Regardless of Pain Severity and Physical Functioning Among Treatment-Seeking Patients With Chronic Pain

2015 • 118 citations

The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality

2016 • 114 citations

The US Health Disadvantage Relative to Other High-Income Countries

2013 • 112 citations

Urban vs. rural differences in prescription opioid misuse among adults in the United States: Informing region specific drug policies and interventions

2014 • 112 citations

Even As Mortality Fell In Most US Counties, Female Mortality Nonetheless Rose In 42.8 Percent Of Counties From 1992 To 2006

2013 • 112 citations

America’s Declining Well-Being, Health, and Life Expectancy: Not Just a White Problem

2018 • 109 citations

Association Between Educational Attainment and Causes of Death Among White and Black US Adults, 2010-2017

2019 • 108 citations

Assessment of Changes in the Geographical Distribution of Opioid-Related Mortality Across the United States by Opioid Type, 1999-2016

2019 • 97 citations

Medicaid Expansion and Infant Mortality in the United States

2018 • 97 citations

Trends in Serious Psychological Distress and Outpatient Mental Health Care of US Adults

2018 • 96 citations

Trends in Mortality Risk by Education Level and Cause of Death Among US White Women From 1986 to 2006

2013 • 96 citations

Estimating Smoking-Attributable Mortality in the United States

2012 • 95 citations

Race/ethnic and socioeconomic differences in stress and immune function in The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health

2014 • 95 citations

Geographic Divergence in Mortality in the United States

2013 • 91 citations

Explaining the Widening Education Gap in Mortality among U.S. White Women

2013 • 89 citations

Declining mental health among disadvantaged Americans

2018 • 87 citations

Health, United States, 2017 : with special feature on mortality

2018 • 86 citations

Janesville: An American Story

2017 • 84 citations

Serious Psychological Distress Among Adults: United States, 2009-2013.

2015 • 82 citations

The Contemporary American Drug Overdose Epidemic in International Perspective

2019 • 82 citations

Explaining inequalities in women's mortality between U.S. States

2016 • 82 citations

Rising mortality and life expectancy differentials by lifetime earnings in the United States

2009 • 79 citations

Rural/urban differences in self-rated health: Examining the roles of county size and metropolitan adjacency

2010 • 73 citations

Cut Loose

2015 • 70 citations

Rural–Urban Differences in Injury Hospitalizations in the U.S., 2004

2008 • 69 citations

What Changes In Survival Rates Tell Us About US Health Care

2010 • 68 citations

State Preemption: A Significant and Quiet Threat to Public Health in the United States

2017 • 66 citations

The Determinants Of Homelessness

1987 • 64 citations

The Depths of Despair Among US Adults Entering Midlife

2019 • 63 citations

Trends in Non‐Hispanic White Mortality in the United States by Metropolitan‐Nonmetropolitan Status and Region, 1990–2016

2019 • 63 citations

Association of obesity with cardiovascular disease mortality in the PLCO trial

2013 • 62 citations

Factors Underlying the Temporal Increase in Maternal Mortality in the United States

2016 • 62 citations

Cut loose: jobless and hopeless in an unfair economy

2015 • 59 citations

Rural and Small Town America

1990 • 57 citations

Contribution of maternal age and pregnancy checkbox on maternal mortality ratios in the United States, 1978–2012

2017 • 56 citations

Stayin’ alive: the 1970s and the last days of the working class

2011 • 53 citations

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

2019 • 53 citations

The Effect of Changes in Selected Age-specific Causes of Death on Non-Hispanic White Life Expectancy Between 2000 and 2014.

2016 • 46 citations

We're Still Here

2019 • 46 citations

Does austerity really kill?

2019 • 42 citations

Why did life expectancy decline in the United States in 2015? A gender-specific analysis

2017 • 40 citations

Diverging trends in female old-age mortality: A reappraisal

2009 • 36 citations

Cost Effectiveness of the Earned Income Tax Credit as a Health Policy Investment

2016 • 35 citations

The rise of mortality from mental and neurological diseases in Europe, 1979–2009: observational study

2014 • 31 citations

Drug Mortality and Lost Life Years Among U.S. Midlife Adults, 1999–2015

2018 • 31 citations

Population Mental Health: Evidence, Policy, and Public Health Practice

2011 • 28 citations

Recent trends in US mortality in early and middle adulthood: racial/ethnic disparities in inter-cohort patterns

2018 • 25 citations

Promoting chronic disease management in persons with complex social needs: A qualitative descriptive study

2019 • 22 citations

The contribution of drug-related deaths to the US disadvantage in mortality

2018 • 21 citations

Shrinking Poor White Life Spans: Class, Race, and Health Justice

2018 • 19 citations

We're Still Here: Pain and Politics in the Heart of America

2019 • 16 citations

The dynamic relationships between economic status and health measures among working‐age adults in the <scp>United States</scp>

2018 • 16 citations

Mortality Among American Indians and Alaska Natives

2018 • 16 citations

Trends in the Family Income Distribution by Race/Ethnicity and Income Source, 1988-2009

2012 • 15 citations

Earnings Growth and Movements in Self‐Reported Health

2016 • 14 citations

Population Mental Health

2011 • 12 citations

Appraising relative and excess mortality in population-based studies of chronic diseases such as end-stage renal disease

2011 • 12 citations

Social and Economic Policies Matter for Health Equity: Conclusions of the SOPHIE Project

2018 • 11 citations

Mortality Trends Among Working-Age Whites: The Untold Story

2016 • 11 citations

Children’s Health Insurance Program Expansions: What Works for Families?

2019 • 8 citations

Improving the Health of Women in the United States

2016 • 4 citations

Retirement Security: Income and Wealth Disparities Continue through Old Age

2019 • 3 citations

Cited By (0)

Loading...