Life Expectancy in US and Ohio
"Ohio ranked as one of the worst states to live in"
How long can you live?
While life expectancy, the average time someone is expected to live, in Columbus has risen since 1980, it lags behind the rest of Ohio. In 2014, Franklin County ranked 55th among Ohio’s counties at 77.6 years when compared to the statewide life expectancy at 77.9 years. Comparing Ohio and its counties with a U.S. average life expectancy of 79.1 years, Ohio is struggling to keep up with the rest of the nation.
View details »Ohio suicide rates have increased 51% from 2000 to 2016
What is killing you?
Columbus counties show lower rates of heart disease and cancer mortalities compared to other Ohio counties, and while rates of heart disease mortality have decreased by 19% in Ohio from 1999 to 2015, Ohio counties are among the top ten states with the highest heart disease mortality rates. Similarly, while Columbus counties have lower rates of cancer mortality than other Ohio counties, the cancer mortality rates are also among the top ten states. This can be observed in the 'Trends Over Time' line graphs. The cancer treemap diagram highlights the top causes of Columbus cancer deaths between 1999 and 2015, with lung cancers as the most prevalent, representing 29.8% of the total cancer deaths, and breast cancer as the second highest, with 8.2% of total cancer deaths.
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Obesity rate has increased to more than 29% in Ohio since 2007!
How can those fat cells kill you early?
In "Is the U.S. Population Behaving Healthier?" (NBER Working Paper 13013), researchers David Cutler, Edward Glaeser, and Allison Rosen examine trends in health behaviors and estimate their effect on mortality rates. The authors conclude that changes in health behaviors have contributed to a drop in mortality rates over the past 30 years, but caution that future increases in obesity may reverse this trend. From the trends we observed in this project for United States, the obesity rate for each state increases for each year and is one of the worst in Ohio, for which the obesity rate has increased more than 29% since 2007. Even if we narrow down our scale to the Columbus, the trend plot demonstrates the increasing obesity trend for all 10 counties in the columbus, albeit some county such as Madison has a decreasing rate in 2012.The obesity issue gradually becomes a potential factor that has impact for life expectancy.
View details »"Unintentional drug overdose continued to be the leading cause of injury-related death in Ohio in 2014, ahead of motor vehicle traffic crashes — a trend which began in 2007."
How addicted are you?
Even though opioid prescribing rates in Ohio have decreased by 20.4 percent from 2012 to 2016, Ohio ranks second among states, behind West Virginia, at 39.1 overdose deaths per 100,000 people. Despite this, of the 35 counties collected in the data, Franklin County ranked 25th in mortality rate caused by opioid overdose, at 23.5 deaths per 100,000. This study shows that males are twice as likely to die from an overdose than females and Caucasians are one and a half times more likely to die than African Americans. As the opioid epidemic continues, it will be interesting to see where Ohio and Franklin County end up.
