Older people who earn less than $20,000 a year die nine years sooner on average than those who earn $120,000 or more. That's the conclusion of a new analysis that shows a strong connection between ...

Poor housing, obesity and the effects of deprivation have been suggested as underlying causes of the fall.

WASHINGTON – As the gap in life expectancy between the highest and lowest earners in the U.S. has widened over time, high earners have disproportionately received larger lifetime benefits from ...

For many of the 2,600 residents of South Franklinton, opportunities for a higher quality of life remain stubbornly out of reach. Amid the smattering of low-income housing tucked around the evidence of ...

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After more than a century of steady progress, new research warns that the world’s life expectancy boom is slowing, largely because improvements in early-life mortality have already been achieved.

Healthy life expectancy, defined as the years we can expect to live in good health, has fallen over the past decade ...

While these trends are national rather than uniquely Southern, they have added strain in many communities already facing ...