WHO data shows COVID-19 eliminated a decade of progress in global level of life expectancy
May 25, 2024, at 02:46 pm
Data crunched by the UN World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed that the COVID-19 emergency reversed more than a decade of gains in life expectancy, reinforcing the need for countries to agree on a global pandemic treaty to protect future generations.
Study says U.S. men die nearly six years before women
Nov 15, 2023, at 10:25 pm
We’ve known for more than a century that women outlive men. But new research led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and UC San Francisco shows that, at least in the United States, the gap has been widening for more than a decade.
Sep 28, 2021, at 12:08 am
London: The COVID-19 pandemic triggered life expectancy losses not seen since World War II in Western Europe and exceeded those observed around the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc in central and Eastern European countries, according to research published today, led by scientists at Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science.
Air Pollution is cutting lives short by 8.6 years in UP: AQLI
Oct 31, 2019, at 03:55 pm
Lucknow/UNI: On an average, air pollution cuts short life expectancy of citizens in Uttar Pradesh by nearly 8.6 years relative to what they would be if particulate concentrations everywhere were at the level of 10 µg/m 3 deemed safe by the WHO, as per a new analysis of the Air Quality Life Index (AQLI).
Women outliving men ‘everywhere’, new UN health agency statistics report shows
Apr 05, 2019, at 08:51 am
New York, Apr 5 (IBNS): Average life-expectancy globally has increased by five-and-a-half years since the turn of the century, and women outlive men “everywhere”, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
Preventable illness is factor in slower life expectancy increases: Study
Dec 22, 2018, at 03:09 pm
London, Dec 22 (IBNS): Preventable illnesses, including heart disease and stroke, are one of several factors behind the slowing improvements in life expectancy in England, according to a new review published by Public Health England (PHE).
Life expectancy gains are slowing in both rich and poor countries
Feb 03, 2018, at 11:18 pm
New York, Feb 3 (IBNS): Increases in human life expectancy have slowed dramatically across the world since 1950, according to a study from researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
A healthy lifestyle increases life expectancy by up to seven years, says study
Jul 22, 2017, at 12:55 am
New Delhi, July 21 (IBNS): A new study published today in Health Affairs shows that people who refrain from engaging in risky health behaviors not only have a very long life — longer than the famously long-lived Japanese - but that most of these additional years of life are spent in good health.