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Has life expectancy fallen?
Author(s) -
Bland Martin
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2017.01031.x
Subject(s) - life expectancy , expectancy theory , history , gerontology , economic history , demographic economics , demography , psychology , economics , medicine , sociology , management , population
A reported decrease in life expectancy at age 65 has been blamed on funding cuts made by the UK's coalition and Conservative governments. But the story is not so straightforward, as Martin Bland explains