By investing in health care and continuing to encourage more New Yorkers to take charge of their own health, weve experienced dramatic improvements in life expectancy, the mayor said.
City officials said that overdose deaths from heroin, cocaine and other illicit drugs were also down, further boosting life expectancy. Infant mortality rates had also dropped, reflecting healthier mothers and better obstetric and pediatric care.
overdose v. 使用药过量;n.过量用药
illicit a. 非法的;违法的;违背社会常规的;不正当的
Although the new life expectancy numbers are encouraging, the fact remains that heart disease, cancer and flu/pneumonia are still the top three leading causes of death inNew York, followed by lung disease and diabetes. (This is New York, after all, and not everybody takes kindly to being told not to smoke or eat fast food.) A third of all deaths in New York occur before age 65, with more than 15,000 New Yorkers dying prematurely each year.
But many of these deaths can be prevented, and the city is hard at work trying as its public-health campaigns demonstrate.The health messages in New York are ubiquitous and persistent; you cant avoid them (much like New Yorkers themselves). So, if theres any upside to standing in a crowded subway car every day or fighting through the hordes at Times Square, maybe its that the citys pervasive health-promoting billboards and ads might soon sink in.
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