Poor housing, obesity and the effects of deprivation have been suggested as underlying causes of the fall.

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BRITS can now expect to live fewer years in good health compared to a decade ago, grim research suggests. In the UK, people can now expect to live in good health until the age of 61 on average ...

Explanations for the UK’s worsening health overlook a key factor: decades of relatively low public spending, compounded by ...

So, some cheerful news! Life expectancy in the UK just fell to its lowest level in a decade. New ONS data shows life expectancy at birth in 2020 to 2022 was 78.6 years for males and 82.6 years for ...

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Life expectancy for females in the UK has returned to pre-pandemic levels – but there's still a big difference in how long you live depending on where in the UK you are. New figures from the Office ...

While people in the UK may indeed be living longer than their ancestors, the quality of their later decades is being significantly impacted by public health threats. Over the past decade, healthy life ...

In the United Kingdom, adults with diagnosed attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are living significantly shorter lives than the general population, likely due to modifiable risk ...

People in Scotland are spending a greater proportion of their life in poor health than in previous years, new figures from the National Records of Scotland (NRS), external show. The latest figures for ...