Hiam, L;
Patel, P;
(2021)
Same storm, different boats: can the UK recapture improving life expectancy trends?
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
10.1177/01410768211033895.
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Abstract
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.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Same storm, different boats: can the UK recapture improving life expectancy trends? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/01410768211033895 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/01410768211033895 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Health Informatics UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Health Informatics > Infectious Disease Informatics |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10134373 |
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