Americans' well-being varies widely between different regions of the nation, a new study reports.
People in the southern U.S., Appalachia and the Rust Belt states score lowest on the Human Development Index , a composite measure that includes a population's life expectancy, education and income, researchers report in The Lancet.
“IHME's findings further emphasize the critical need to develop highly targeted social programs to dismantle deep-rooted structural inequalities in the US,” Murray added. Overall, the average U.S. HDI increased gradually from 2008 to 2019, then declined in 2020 due to decreases in lifespan linked to theResearchers focused on the 10% of the U.S. population that had the lowest HDI scores, and found that group contained:1 in 4 American Indian/Alaska Native women.However, white men made up the largest number of people among those with the lowest well-being, representing 27% of the segment overall, researchers said.
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