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Does Despair Really Kill? A Roadmap for an Evidence-Based Answer

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2019
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Shanahan, L., Hill, S. N., Gaydosh, L. M., Steinhoff, A., Costello, E. J., Dodge, K. A., Harris, K. M., & Copeland, W. E. (2019). Does Despair Really Kill? A Roadmap for an Evidence-Based Answer. American Journal of Public Health, 109(6), 854–858. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2019.305016

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Two seemingly associated demographic trends have generated considerable interest: income stagnation and rising premature mortality from suicides, drug poisoning, and alcoholic liver disease among US non-Hispanic Whites with low education. Economists interpret these population-level trends to indicate that despair induced by financial stressors is a shared pathway to these causes of death. Although we now have the catchy term "deaths of despair," we have yet to study its central empirical claim: that conceptually defined and empiricall

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  • Shanahan, Lilly
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  • Hill, Sherika N
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  • Gaydosh, Lauren M
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  • Steinhoff, Annekatrin
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  • Costello, E Jane
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  • Dodge, Kenneth A
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  • Harris, Kathleen Mullan
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  • Copeland, William E
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109

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6

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854

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858

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Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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English

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2019-06-01

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2019-05-27

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0090-0036

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Shanahan, L., Hill, S. N., Gaydosh, L. M., Steinhoff, A., Costello, E. J., Dodge, K. A., Harris, K. M., & Copeland, W. E. (2019). Does Despair Really Kill? A Roadmap for an Evidence-Based Answer. American Journal of Public Health, 109(6), 854–858. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2019.305016

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