Die Amerikaner verbringen mehr Zeit damit, mit Krankheiten zu leben als der Rest der Welt, wie Studien zeigen. Die Amerikaner leben durchschnittlich 12,4 Jahre mit Krankheiten. Mentanz- und Substanz-Gebrauchsstörungen sowie muskuloskelettale Erkrankungen tragen Hauptvertreter für die Jahre, die in den USA mit Behinderung gelebt haben
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/11/americans-living-with-diseases-health-study
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Americans spend more time living with diseases than people from other countries, according to a new study.
On Wednesday, the American Medical Association published its latest findings, revealing that Americans live with diseases for an average of 12.4 years. Mental and substance-use disorders, as well as musculoskeletal diseases, are main contributors to the years lived with disability in the US, per the study.
Women in the US exhibited a 2.6-year higher so-called healthspan-lifespan gap (representing the number of years spent sick) than men, increasing from 12.2 to 13.7 years or 32% beyond the global mean for women.
The latest overall healthspan-lifespan gap in the US marks an increase from 10.9 years in 2000 to 12.4 years in 2024, resulting in a 29% higher gap than the global mean.
Globally, the healthspan-lifespan gap has widened over the last 20 years, extending to 9.6 years from 8.5 years in 2000 – a 13% increase.
Following the US in the largest healthspan-lifespan gaps were Australia at 12.1 years, New Zealand at 11.8 years, the UK and Northern Ireland at 11.3 years and Norway at 11.2 years. By contrast, the smallest healthspan-lifespan gaps were seen in Lesotho at 6.5 years, Central African Republic at 6.7 years, Somalia and Kiribati at 6.8 years and and Micronesia at 7 years.
[https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2827753](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2827753)
Counting addiction as a disability is misleading
As a homeless person living with HIV after being infected by my rapist, I discovered that through the Ryan White program that we can get medication for free. Of course, it’s not actually free. The price tag listed on the prescription was $5000 per month. That’s enough to put 4 people in housing.
I asked about housing, and my provider said that I needed to be undetectable first. It appeared that I needed to be a customer of a drug company, suffering on the street with medication that needs to be kept at a certain temperature, before there would be any kind of help with housing. They’re more than happy to enrich companies that turn around and donate a portion to their benefactors campaign, and I’m not interested in being a part of it.
Our nation’s homeless problem is manufactured; the money is there, just not the political will nor good intentions. I refuse to take the medication anymore, deciding to adjust to my new life on the street and slowly decay. I went into the hospital asking for a DNR so they don’t try to revive me after dying from dehydration just so they can continue doing the same neglect again. I was told I needed to be a patient first. I’m not interested in taking my own life, but when the time comes I’m more than happy to leave this world behind.
I’ve had diabetes for 20 years guess I skew the numbers especially when I get to 40 years mark. Dad had it for 60 years and brother had had it for 40 years. My family is trying to raise this number singlehandedly.
One of these things are not like the others, no?
With healthcare access this bad, i don’t know we don’t teach everyone how to treat themselves in high school. They could cover 1st aid of course, but also symptom identification, non prescription treatments, and deciding how much pain is too much pain to risk an ER visit. Real life skills.