Abstract
Public health must be a priority in the 2020 US election
Highlights
As the November, 2020, US presidential election approaches, applying a public health lens should be a decisive factor in the minds of American voters
The USA spends more than 16% of its gross domestic product on health care, in the past decade, increases in life expectancy have stalled
All mostly preventable and modifiable. In this issue of The Lancet Public Health, Howard Bolnick and colleagues used data from the Global Burden of Disease Study to estimate that US health-care spending attributable to modifiable risk factors was US$730 billion for 2016, corresponding to 27% of total health-care spending
Summary
As the November, 2020, US presidential election approaches, applying a public health lens should be a decisive factor in the minds of American voters. The upcoming election plays out against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, a public health emergency that is exposing entrenched inequalities. The most common causes of death are ischaemic heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, lung cancer, stroke, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; and the top three risk factors are high body-mass index, tobacco use, and high blood pressure.
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