[WATCH]: Health Problems Slow Gains in US Life Spans

This is the VOA Special English Health Report , from voaspecialenglish.com | http Americans spend more on health care than most other people. Yet a new study shows that life expectancy in the United States is falling behind other developed countries. In two thousand seven an American man could expect to live about seventy-five and a half years. That was less than in thirty-six other countries. Life expectancy for American women was almost eighty-one years. They were also in thirty-seventh place among almost two hundred countries and territories. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington studied the numbers. Professor Ali Mokdad says increases in life expectancy have slowed in the United States

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