{"id":3327,"date":"2019-07-17T11:57:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T15:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/health-studies\/?p=3327"},"modified":"2019-07-17T12:43:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T16:43:54","slug":"rhode-island-life-expectancy-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/2019\/07\/17\/rhode-island-life-expectancy-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhode Island Life Expectancy Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/rilife.uri.edu\">website<\/a> for the Rhode Island Life Expectancy Project is now live!<\/p>\n<p>The Project is a landmark effort, developed by researchers at URI to highlight how health and well-being are influenced by where we live and work. It provides population and health data to Rhode Island researchers, policymakers, educators, and all current and future Rhode Island residents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1261\/LE0.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3348 size-third_column\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1261\/LE0-364x364.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"364\" height=\"364\"><\/a>The Project found that life expectancy, ranging from 75.9 years in Woonsocket to 83.3 years in Barrington, was most strongly associated with the percent of the population with a education, violent crime rate, and per capita income. Also, some communities had unexpectedly high LE and low ASMR, despite poor social indicators. These findings highlight substantial place-based disparities and potentially addressable social determinants that could improve population health and reduce place-based disparities among neighboring communities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/meet\/dr-steven-cohen\/\">Dr. Steve Cohen<\/a>, Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Studies, is the Principal Investigator of the project. Health Studies majors, Catherine Lenox (\u201921) and Julia Broccoli (\u201919), and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/meet\/molly-greaney\/\">Dr. Molly Greaney<\/a> are also part of the URI study team. The web site was created by Heather O&#8217;Neill of Pixels for Humans.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the project, and to explore the data and results, check out the Project website: <a href=\"https:\/\/rilife.uri.edu\">rilife.uri.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The study was funded by the URI Office of Sponsored Projects and used mortality data from the Rhode Island Department of Health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The website for the Rhode Island Life Expectancy Project is now live! The Project is a landmark effort, developed by researchers at URI to highlight how health and well-being are influenced by where we live and work. It provides population and health data to Rhode Island researchers, policymakers, educators, and all current and future Rhode Island residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2097,"featured_media":3330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3327"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3375,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions\/3375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/public-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}