Mortality Trends Among Working-Age Whites: The Untold Story

Recent research has called attention to an unexpected rise in death rates among middle-aged, white Americans between 1999 and 2014. The full extent of the phenomenon may be underappreciated, however.

Trends in U.S. Working-Age non-Hispanic White Mortality: Rural–Urban and Within-Rural Differences

PDF) The Untold Story of 50 Years of Adolescent Fertility in West Africa: A Cohort Perspective on the Quantum, Timing, and Spacing of Adolescent Childbearing

An ecological study of temporal trends in 'deaths of despair' in England and Wales

Perception has its Own Reality: Subjective versus Objective Measures of Economic Distress - Glei - 2018 - Population and Development Review - Wiley Online Library

Death rates for white middle-aged Americans are not increasing.

Health insurance and opioid deaths: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act young adult provision - Wettstein - 2019 - Health Economics - Wiley Online Library

Causal Inference Challenges in the Relationship Between Social Determinants and Cardiovascular Outcomes - Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Drivers of the fatal drug epidemic - ScienceDirect

The Economic Crisis, Addiction, and Suicide by Erik Mebust — Summer 2016: The Decline of the American Middle Class

PDF) Economic Mobility and the Mortality Crisis Among U.S. Middle-Aged Whites

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Famine Trends Dataset, Tables and Graphs - World Peace Foundation

Mortality Trends Commonwealth Fund