The wealthiest men in San Diego County can expect to live almost a decade longer than their poorest counterparts.
That’s one of the findings from the Health Inequality Project, a report written by researchers from Stanford, Harvard and MIT. In 2014, the most recent year available, a 40-year-old San Diego County man in the top quarter of income earners could expect to live to almost 90. A man of the same age in the bottom quarter of income would only expect to live to 80.
That gap is narrower for women: Almost 90 years for the top income and slightly less than 86 years for the women at the bottom of the income scale.
Despite the gap, the San Diego region ranked as the sixth-best area in the country on life expectancy for the bottom quarter of income earners based on a 14-year average.
[For more of this story, written by Leo Castaneda, go to http://www.kpbs.org/news/2017/...ifespan-gap-between/]
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