In the US, mental and substance-use disorders are the biggest factors to blame, along with musculoskeletal diseases that affect joints, bones and muscles. The discrepancy is even higher for American women, whose healthspan-lifespan gap is, on average, 2.6 years wider than their male counterparts’ – because they tend to live longer and are also more likely to have musculoskeletal conditions.
The paper is here
Doesn’t this just imply that end-of-life care is more successful here? It doesn’t seem like a particularly useful statistic on its own.
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