{"id":550,"date":"2008-03-23T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/03\/23\/the-gap-between-the-life-expectancy-of-the-rich-and-poor-is-increasing\/"},"modified":"2009-11-28T19:53:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T00:53:09","slug":"the-gap-between-the-life-expectancy-of-the-rich-and-poor-is-increasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/03\/23\/the-gap-between-the-life-expectancy-of-the-rich-and-poor-is-increasing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gap Between The Life Expectancy Of The Rich And Poor Is Increasing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps related to <a href=\"http:\/\/sociologicalimages.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/two-excellent-graphs-illustrating.html\">increasing wealth and income inequality<\/a> in our society, the gap between the life expectancy of the rich and the poor is also increasing. This image is from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/23\/us\/23health.html?ex=1206936000&amp;en=9298a0d17e6b2f56&amp;ei=5070&amp;emc=eta1\">New York Times article<\/a> on the topic:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/ScienceMedicine-GapInLifeExpectancyOverTime.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181022923322915234\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/ScienceMedicine-GapInLifeExpectancyOverTime.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Singh, who was part of the study, explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1980-82&#8230; people in the most affluent group could expect to live 2.8 years longer than people in the most deprived group (75.8 versus 73 years). By 1998-2000, the difference in life expectancy had increased to 4.5 years (79.2 versus 74.7 years), and it continues to grow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps related to increasing wealth and income inequality in our society, the gap between the life expectancy of the rich and the poor is also increasing. This image is from a New York Times article on the topic: Dr. Singh, who was part of the study, explains: In 1980-82&#8230; people in the most affluent group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,55,2091,252,253,778],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-gender","tag-gender-healthmedicine","tag-healthmedicine","tag-history","tag-intersectionality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16956,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/16956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}