Some wake up calls from mortality data

Aaron Carroll

January 10, 2013

Just a few more charts from the mortality data I’ve been hitting today.

This is deaths from violence:

The US is a real outlier. We’re not so much when it comes to suicide:

And to really keep you up at night, here’s deaths from war:

It’s far too easy to forget that we’re still at war, and that there’s a human cost. The US is paying it, in more ways than one.

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Aaron Carroll

Aaron E. Carroll, MD, MS is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist and tweets at @aaronecarroll. He is the Chief Health Officer at Indiana University. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Research Mentoring at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition to contributing regularly to The New York Times and the Atlantic, he is the author of four books, most recently The Bad Food Bible.

Some wake up calls from mortality data

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Some wake up calls from mortality data

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