Public health researchers explain: “Death by despair” is a thing, but not the biggest thing

Arline Geronimus sends along this article, “Weathering, Drugs, and Whack-a-Mole: Fundamental and Proximate Causes of Widening Educational Inequity in U.S. Life Expectancy by Sex and Race, 1990–2015,” with John Bound, Timothy Waidmann, Javier Rodriguez, and Brenden Timpe: Discussion of growing inequity in U.S. life expectancy increasingly focuses on the popularized narrative that it is driven …