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

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.

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

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 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 ...

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, ...

Golf is undoubtedly a good activity, but it has limitations in supporting physical function in old age. According to ...