The south-east would top a life expectancy table of industrialised nations, with men living to 83.1 years – the north-West would come in the bottom five
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15/09/2015 • 7:40 am
The south-east would top a life expectancy table of industrialised nations, with men living to 83.1 years – the north-West would come in the bottom five
England remains a profoundly unequal country with more than eight years separating the male life expectancy of the richest people in the south and east from the poorest in the north, a new study has found.
While great progress has been made in improving male and female life expectancy since 1990, the comprehensive Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors (GBD) study found that the health gap between rich and poor has barely altered in 25 years. The figures, published in The Lancet, show that if the healthiest region of England, the south-east, were a country it would top a league of 22 industrialised nations for its health outcomes. But if the north-west were a country, it would be in the bottom five.
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