Open AccessMeeting the Institute of Medicine's 2030 US Life Expectancy Target
Author(s) -
David A. Kindig,
Jenobles,
Moheb Zidan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2017.304099
Subject(s) - life expectancy , demography , mortality rate , equity (law) , population , gerontology , medicine , geography , political science , sociology , law
To quantify the improvement in US life expectancy required to reach parity with high-resource nations by 2030, to document historical precedent of this rate, and to discuss the plausibility of achieving this rate in the United States.