TY - JOUR
T1 - What Can the Health Humanities Contribute to Our Societal Understanding of and Response to the Deaths of Despair Crisis?
AU - George, Daniel R.
AU - Studebaker, Benjamin
AU - Sterling, Peter
AU - Wright, Megan S.
AU - Cain, Cindy L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2023/9
Y1 - 2023/9
N2 - Deaths of Despair (DoD), or mortality resulting from suicide, drug overdose, and alcohol-related liver disease, have been rising steadily in the United States over the last several decades. In 2020, a record 186,763 annual despair-related deaths were documented, contributing to the longest sustained decline in US life expectancy since 1915–1918. This forum feature considers how health humanities disciplines might fruitfully engage with this era-defining public health catastrophe and help society better understand and respond to the crisis.
AB - Deaths of Despair (DoD), or mortality resulting from suicide, drug overdose, and alcohol-related liver disease, have been rising steadily in the United States over the last several decades. In 2020, a record 186,763 annual despair-related deaths were documented, contributing to the longest sustained decline in US life expectancy since 1915–1918. This forum feature considers how health humanities disciplines might fruitfully engage with this era-defining public health catastrophe and help society better understand and respond to the crisis.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10912-023-09795-0
DO - 10.1007/s10912-023-09795-0
M3 - Article
C2 - 37059900
AN - SCOPUS:85152911794
SN - 1041-3545
VL - 44
SP - 347
EP - 367
JO - Journal of Medical Humanities
JF - Journal of Medical Humanities
IS - 3
ER -
