These U.S. Cities, Neighborhoods Have Lowest Life Expectancy: How Does Yours Stack Up? [newsweek.com]

Throughout the United States, life expectancy varies, with people in some states living far longer on average than people in others.

In a newly released project, researchers from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics partnered with the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to determine just how different life expectancy can be in one nation. The groups created the U.S. Small-area Life Expectancy Estimates Project, called USALEEP, to measure the health of areas in the country.

“This is the first measure of health at a neighborhood level for every neighborhood,” Don Schwarz, the senior vice president at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation told Newsweek on Tuesday. “It represents the measure of opportunity for a long life that we give every child in every neighborhood in this country.”

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