A relatively small life expectancy in new York city in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is easily explained by the outbreaks of various diseases such as yellow fever, smallpox and cholera. With the gradual development of medicine, the average life expectancy in the city has increased steadily for 70 years. Only here for the last three years it has become to decrease.
On Friday, the Department of health and mental health of new York has published an annual summary of statistics on the health status of citizens. The materials contains materials regarding the reasons for the increasing mortality and reducing life expectancy.
The report, which is a compilation of data about the health status of the population in 2015, says that the average life expectancy for the entire city amounted to 81.2 years. This figure illustrates the reduction compared to 2014, when the average life expectancy amounted to 81.3 years.
As a rule, new Yorkers with higher incomes have a significantly higher life expectancy than those who are content with modest incomes. For example, among the inhabitants of the Murray Hill and Upper East Side had the highest life expectancy in the city: 85.9 years. Least of all living residents of Brownsville district in Brooklyn, having lived, on average, just to 75.1 years.
The report also clearly States that killing the people of new York. The main cause of death will be heart disease. Malignant neoplasms, in other words, cancer, are the second most common cause of death worldwide. These two reasons have led to more deaths in new York than all the others combined. If this information is not will make you think about your health, then nothing will.
