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For once, we're not among the worst. A new study has found that women's life expectancy declined significantly in 180 U.S. counties from 1983 to 1999. And, happily, Kern County isn't among those. Most of the counties are in the deep South and Appalachia, according to the study, which was done by researchers at Harvard University, the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of Washington. There wasn’t a big change in our life expectancy over the last 40 years, observed interim Public Health Officer Dr. Claudia Jonah, looking over the data. "That really is very encouraging," she said. "I see that Kern could very well avoid going down the road of some of these other places." Here is some of Kern's data broken out, starting with the first year info is available: 1961: 69.94 years (66.36 years for men, 74.36 years for women) 1965: 69.57 (65.91 for men, 73.98 for women) 1970: 70.26 (66.53 for men, 74.53 for women) ...
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