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

While life expectancy across the U.S. declined significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health ...

The U.S. spends more on health care but has a shorter life expectancy. Learn why the longevity gap exists.

The average life expectancy in the U.S. has been on the decline for three consecutive years. A baby born in 2017 is expected to live to be 78.6 years old, which is down from 78.7 the year before, ...

A recent research letter published July 9 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), titled “The Failure of Life Expectancy to Fully Rebound to Prepandemic Levels,” paints a damning ...

After more than a century of steady progress, new research warns that the world’s life expectancy boom is slowing, largely because improvements in early-life mortality have already been achieved.

On Sunday, the Health Foundation published new analysis of ONS data, finding that between 2012/14 and 2022/24 the average ...

A drop in healthy life expectancy is explained through many causes: obesity, alcohol, drugs, suicide, chronic disease, ...