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What Can the Health Humanities Contribute to Our Societal Understanding of and Response to the Deaths of Despair Crisis?
- Source :
- Journal of Medical Humanities; Sep2023, Vol. 44 Issue 3, p347-367, 21p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Deaths of Despair (DoD), or mortality resulting from suicide, drug overdose, and alcohol-related liver disease, have been rising steadily in the United States over the last several decades. In 2020, a record 186,763 annual despair-related deaths were documented, contributing to the longest sustained decline in US life expectancy since 1915–1918. This forum feature considers how health humanities disciplines might fruitfully engage with this era-defining public health catastrophe and help society better understand and respond to the crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- DESPAIR
DRUG overdose
ALCOHOL-induced disorders
LIFE expectancy
CRISES
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10413545
- Volume :
- 44
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Medical Humanities
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 171844967
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-023-09795-0