> Overwork CONTRIBUTES to the death of more than 745k per year.
I understood the headline figure to be suggesting that 750k people per year around the world are dying early, i.e. 10 years earlier than they would otherwise.
(Unlike you, I find it unsurprising and likely true to the point of not being headline-worthy: this is not very many people against the working age population)
The original article doesn't quite refer to that definition, but does say that 23.3 million Disability Adjusted Life-Years are lost per year, so it does seem to be working on an approximately equivalent basis.
Saying that everything around us "contributes" to death is pointless hyper-factualism. It's useful to have a scientific attempt to quantify how much each factor contributes.
I understood the headline figure to be suggesting that 750k people per year around the world are dying early, i.e. 10 years earlier than they would otherwise.
(Unlike you, I find it unsurprising and likely true to the point of not being headline-worthy: this is not very many people against the working age population)
The original article doesn't quite refer to that definition, but does say that 23.3 million Disability Adjusted Life-Years are lost per year, so it does seem to be working on an approximately equivalent basis.
Saying that everything around us "contributes" to death is pointless hyper-factualism. It's useful to have a scientific attempt to quantify how much each factor contributes.