Trends in life expectancy: did the gap between the healthy and the ill widen or close?
Abstract Background During the past decades, life expectancy has continued to increase in most high-income countries. Previous research suggests that improvements in life expectancy have primarily been driven by advances at the upper end of the health distribution, while parts of the population have...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2020-03-01
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| Series: | BMC Medicine |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12916-020-01514-z |