Peachcare and Young YPLL
In a recent post, we began to explore premature death rates within Georgia’s working-age population, men and women between the ages of 18 and 65. We were initially surprised to learn that improvements in the so-called YPLL 75 Rate for this segment of the state’s population lagged gains for the population as a whole. That led us to drill down a bit and look at premature death trends in the younger and older age groups – specifically, Georgians under the age of 18 and between the ages of 65 and 75.
Both groups saw significantly stronger gains in their premature death rates than did working-age Georgians. The question was why; what factors were driving premature death gains for younger and older Georgians that were somehow not impacting working-age Georgians?
