RETRACTED ARTICLE: Declining Life Expectancy in the U.S.

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We, the Editors and Publisher of Issues in Mental Health Nursing, have retracted the following article:Flaskerud, J. H. (2023). Declining life expectancy in the U.S. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, DOI: 10.1080/01612840.2023.2186113Since publication, significant concerns have been raised about the fact that this article has substantial overlap with the following articles: Woolf, S. H., & Aron, L. (2013). U.S. health in international perspective: Shorter lives, poorer health. In drum.lib.umd.edu. The National Academies Press. https://drum.lib.umd.edu/items/8ab402d2-a7cf-4aee-9e87-aea83e8e4147Andrasfay, T., & Goldman, N. (2020). Reductions in 2020 US life expectancy due to COVID-19 and the disproportionate impact on the Black and Latino populations. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.12.20148387Schneider, E. C., et al. (2021). Mirror, Mirror 2021: Reflecting poorly. The Commonwealth Fund. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2021/aug/mirror-mirror-2021-reflecting-poorlyAchenbach. J., & Keating, D. (2016). A new divide in American death: Statistics show widening urban-rural health gap. Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2016/04/10/a-new-divide-in-american-death/Case, A., & Deaton, A. (2016). Reply to Schmid, Snyder, and Gelman and Auerbach: Correlates of the increase in white non-Hispanic midlife mortality in the 21st century. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(7), E818-E819. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1524312113When asked for an explanation, the author has agreed that there is a significant level of overlap which does not appropriately acknowledge the sources with quotations and in-text citations. As this is a breach of our Editorial Policies, we are retracting the article from the journal. The author has agreed to retract the article.We have been informed in our decision-making by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines on retractions.The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as 'Retracted'.