%0 Journal Article
%A Hiam, L
%A Patel, P
%D 2021
%F discovery:10134373
%I SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
%J Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
%T Same storm, different boats: can the UK recapture improving life expectancy trends?
%U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10134373/
%X The COVID-19 pandemic has led to devastating loss of life and livelihood across the world. It has resulted in falls in life expectancy, a widely used summary measure of contemporary age-specific mortality rates, in most European countries.1 In England and Wales, life expectancy has fallen by 0.9 and 1.2 years for women and men, respectively, when compared to 2019.2 These falls are, however, part of a longer-term trend that began long before the COVID-19 pandemic. For the past decade, life expectancy in the UK has been stalling, and falling in some regions and social groups, and inequality in age at death has been rising.3 In this piece, we consider the health of the UK population before the pandemic, compare this to the health of the populations in the USA and Japan, as investigated in a recent paper,3 and ask if it is possible to recapture previous improving life expectancy trajectories.
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