In Missouri, the average person born in 2021 could expect to live to be 74.6 years old, a whole three years younger than the average age 10 years ago. The state’s drop is part of a nationwide decline, though the life expectancy in Missouri is lower than the United States average. Dr. Dalen Duitsman, director of the Ozarks Public Health Institute at Missouri State University, … [Read more...] about Why Missouri’s life expectancy is among the worst in the U.S.
To understand more about vaccine hesitancy in southwest Missouri, a group of Missouri State University public health students conducted interviews with residents as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s effort to raise vaccination rates. Find out more about the effort in The Kansas City Star. … [Read more...] about Why are southwest Missouri residents vaccine hesitant?