Author Archives: Jorden Jackson and Anna Shetler

About Jorden Jackson and Anna Shetler

Anna Shetler is a doctoral student in Sociology and Demography at Penn State. She focuses on population health, with an emphasis on place-based effects across the life course.

Beyond COVID and Opioids: Contextualizing Life Expectancy Decline in the United States

By | September 18, 2023

This entry was one of the winners of our Summer 2023 student blog contest! Trends in Life Expectancy The recent decline in life expectancy in the United States is largely attributed to the well-known COVID-19 pandemic and opioid epidemic. However, these recent crises are not the sole drivers of the stagnation and subsequent drop in… Read More »