| During
the 20th century, U.S. life expectancy increased 30 years. Which
of the following was the most important factor behind the increase?
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Social reforms (like wage and labor laws, housing codes, etc.) and increased prosperity
While researchers debate the relative importance of one factor versus another, most agree that better wages, housing, job security and working conditions, civil rights laws, sanitation and other protections that enlarged the middle class were central to expanding average American life expectancy.
Death rates from tuberculosis, for example, fell by 70% even before the drug for TB was discovered in 1948.(1, 2) Sources:
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