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- Title
MUST WE PAY FOR MODERN LIVING WITH SHORTENED LIVES?
- Authors
Broda, K.
- Abstract
American public opinion is rather optimistic about the great improvement in public health which has taken place in this country during the last half century. But a deeper analysis of the yearly mortality statistics published by the Bureau of the Census shows that prolongation of the average life is due nearly exclusively to two causes— elimination of many dangers to infants' lives and radical restriction of infectious diseases. They show that mortality from the chronic diseases of middle age and advanced age does not decrease but increases. Industrial life in this country brings about great dangers to health, more so even than in Europe. The quicker life in American cities, the greater haste, the greater endeavor to beat the competitor, the greater intensity of labor have also undoubtedly put a greater strain on the heart and the nerves, and seem to be responsible for the quicker destruction of the vital force of the American city dweller, in comparison both with the American village dweller and with the average Britisher, although the latter lives even to a greater extent in cities than the contemporary American.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PUBLIC health; LONGEVITY; INFANT health; MORTALITY; COMMUNICABLE diseases
- Publication
Social Forces, 1929, Vol 7, Issue 3, p403
- ISSN
0037-7732
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2569810