Summary PBHE527 Week 3 Assignment.docx PBHE 527 In Sickness, In Wealth American Public University PBHE 527: Social and Behavioral Aspects of Health According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), United States (US) curre

PBHE527 Week 3 A PBHE 527 In Sickness, In Wealth American Public University PBHE 527: Social and Behavioral Aspects of Health According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), United States (US) currently ranks twenty-ninth out of thirty-five countries and twenty-sixth for life expectancy with an average of seventy-nine years. Understanding this rating and what drives it is important not only for the overall health of the population but also for policy development and guidance on economic growth (Foreman et al., 2018). Although between December of 2007 and 2016 the rankings for OECD have not significantly changed, in 1950, the US was fifth among the leading industrialized nations specifically with relations to female life expectancy at birth (Muennig & Glied, 2010). Thus, one must ask, if medicine back then did not experience the medical advances we had between 2007 t