{"id":5118,"date":"2012-07-07T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=5118"},"modified":"2012-07-06T23:17:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T03:17:49","slug":"new-yorks-life-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/new-yorks-life-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\u2019s Life Boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/070712_0312_NewYorksLif1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aaron Carroll reported on a fascinating trend: New York City&#8217;s life expectancy has been rising much faster than the rest of America&#8217;s life expectancy (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-cost-of-new-york-city\/\">perhaps the film-makers are somehow helping?<\/a>) Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The most impressive is Manhattan. Its life expectancy rose by 10 years between 1987 and 2009. In the rest of the US it only increased by 1.7 years per decade.<\/li>\n<li>This might be due to various NYC health initiatives. They include calorie labels on chain restaurant menu items like McDonald&#8217;s Big Mac, a ban on trans-fat as well as public smoking, and extra bicycle lanes.<\/li>\n<li>The Bronx is the poorest urban county in the United States, yet it was still in the top percentile of America&#8217;s 3147 cities and counties in terms of life expectancy gains.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more including other reasons for why it might have risen, why it can&#8217;t be due to the reduction in homicides and traffic fatalities, why immigration isn&#8217;t the likely explanation, and a link to a follow-up post responding to the criticisms that have arisen, click <a href=\"http:\/\/theincidentaleconomist.com\/wordpress\/whats-going-on-in-nyc\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/theincidentaleconomist.com\/wordpress\/whats-going-on-in-nyc\/\">The Incidental Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Carroll reported on a fascinating trend: New York City&#8217;s life expectancy has been rising much faster than the rest of America&#8217;s life expectancy (perhaps the film-makers are somehow helping?) Highlights include: The most impressive is Manhattan. Its life expectancy rose by 10 years between 1987 and 2009. In the rest of the US it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/070712_0312_NewYorksLif1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5124,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118\/revisions\/5124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}