Summary Of What's Killing Poor White Women

The death rate has increased in a specific group of people poor uneducated white women, in “What’s Killing Poor White Women?” by Monica Potts. Scientists have known that dropouts are unlikely to live as long as people that completed their education but that does not explain the 5 year drop in life expectancy within 18 years, but they do not know what caused such a drastic drop. One study conducted by Jennifer Karas Montez found that having a job is as important as healthy habits, another shows that location is key and that impoverished women work the most but are not acknowledge. The case that is analysed throughout this article is Crystal Wilson died in her bed at age 38 and dropped out of school to marry and have a child but a cycle of marrying
young, dropping out of school prevented her from getting a job and she was overweight and diabetic. Her 17 year-old daughter broke the cycle after her mother died even though she has a daughter and husband, she finished high school and is planning to go to community college.
The drop in life expectancy for white women who quit going to high school is much larger than for other women, black women who more commonly have these issues have not dropped in life expectancy. And oddly enough the answer to this scientific is not rooted in science it is more an emotional question, these women work exceptionally hard for no recognition and having a way to interact with people helps them, but because they do not have high school diplomas they are less likely to work in any way. In some parts of the country there are communities that have a succession of women marrying young, having children and failing out of school and those women are the ones that are most likely to die young and it is influenced by their decisions on habits and behaviors.