In recent years, life expectancy in the United States has stagnated, followed by three
consecutive years of decline. The decline is small in absolute terms but is unprecedented …

Despite decades of progress, the future of life expectancy in the United States is uncertain
due to widening socioeconomic disparities in mortality, continued disparities in mortality …

Recent trends in US health have been mixed, with improvements among some groups and
geographic areas alongside declines among others. Medical sociologists have contributed …

Introduction: Today, antiretroviral therapy (ART) is effectively used as a lifelong therapy to
treat people living with HIV (PLWH) to suppress viral replication. Moreover, PLWH need an …

Although the black-white gap in life expectancy has been shrinking in the US, national
improvement conceals ongoing disparities. Nowhere is this more evident than Washington …

Geographic disparities in adult mortality within the US have grown over the past several
decades, but the reasons for these trends remain unclear. In this article, we examine trends …

Background: Life expectancy in the United States has declined since 2014 but
characterization of disparities within and across metropolitan areas of the country is lacking …

Previous UK and European research has highlighted important variations in mortality
between populations after adjustment for key determinants such as poverty and deprivation …

Importance US cities have substantial, but varying, levels of racial mortality inequities, a
consequence of structural racism. As committed partners increasingly pledge to eliminate …

Abstract In the United States, Black youth tend to grow up in remarkably less resourced
neighborhoods than White youth. This study investigates whether and to what extent Black …