I thought this was really quite interesting. Asian-American women can expect to live 13 years longer than low-income black women in the rural South, for example. That's like comparing women in wealthy Japan to those in poverty-ridden Nicaragua.
Compare those longest-living women to inner-city black men, and the life-expectancy gap is 21 years. That's similar to the life-expectancy gap between Iceland and Uzbekistan.
Health disparities are widely considered an issue of minorities and the poor being unable to find or afford good medical care. Murray's county-by-county comparison of life expectancy shows the problem is far more complex, and that geography plays a crucial role.
A person's age and longetivity is dictated by the geographical region? Really? This fascination with location must be just me. Since it's "mostly rural north" that has the longest lived people, is this affected by the fact that rural areas tend to have better air? Less fat in their diet, perhaps? More cows? Less guns therefore? (Or should that be MORE guns but less violence?)
You have to understand.
I'm in Singapore.
We're a pebble in the stream that is South East Asia. Heh - geographically, that is. We're too tiny for things like this to impact us. How small is small, you ask?
You could probably fit 3 Singapores into New York City alone.
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You could probably fit 3 Singapores into New York City alone.
It would likely do wonders for the place, depending on which parts of NYC you chose to replace. :-)
Okay, time for a little net.research. Wikipedia, here I come.
Singapore takes up not quite 700 square kilometers, or about 270 square miles. New York City (the five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island) takes up about 321 square miles, or 830 square kilometers.
So the two nations (you thought NYC was a city in America? Ha! It's some islands off the coast of America...) are pretty close to the same size.
Our population density is quite a bit higher than yours, though, as we pack in 8.1 million people to your (estimated) 4.4 million.
Singapore density: about 6,300 per sq km
NYC density: about 9,762 per sq km.
Now you know why I could never get a date in junior high school. :-)
You know, Barry, whenever you leave comments, I feel like it's a huge compliment. *chuckles*
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