Archive: Mortality

• WCP: Health Class

  The United States has long struggled to expand access to high quality health care to all its people, yet the health of the poor and the working-class is also tied to social factors such as where the

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Affordable Care Act, Health Care, John Russo, Kenneth Thompson, Mortality, Sherry Linkon, Social determinants, WCP, Working-Class Health, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Parts and Wholes: Unpacking Reports of White Working-Class Death Rates

  A study finding increased mortality for the white working-class drew a lot of attention last fall. Yet as Jack Metzgar demonstrates in this week's Working-Class Perspectives post, the focus on race

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Death rates, Jack Metzgar, John Russo, Life expectancy, Mortality, Sherry Linkon, WCP, White Working Class, Working-Class Perspectives