Recent Health Gains for Adults

Document Type

Letter to the Editor

Publication Date

9-2-1982

Abstract

To the Editor: McGinnis raises a number of interesting issues in his recent Sounding Board article.1 The greater proportionate gain in health for adults as compared with infants is of great interest. A second feature in recent health statistics is also unique and deserves notice: For perhaps the first time in history the gains for blacks have exceeded those for whites. From 1968 to 1980 the life expectancy of white men and white women increased 4.4 per cent and 4.0 per cent, respectively, while for blacks the increase was 8.1 for men and 9.0 for women.2 Declining cardiovascular death rates. © 1982, Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

New England Journal of Medicine

First Page

631

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