Monday, 23 May, 2022
TopicLife expectancy

Topic: Life expectancy

Global life expectancy has risen by 43 years, but it’s more time living in poor health

Douglas Broom -
Life expectancy is rising, but we are also spending more time living in poor health. A new study from the McKinsey Health Institute has a few answers.

WHO flags ‘lack of regulation in pvt sector’ in Indian healthcare, lauds rise in life expectancy

Abantika Ghosh -
Review part of WHO’s ‘Health Systems in Transition (HiT)' profiles, which are country-based reports of health systems. Low public health spend among other issues raised.

SubscriberWrites: World Happiness Report shows how India lags behind in GDP, social support & life expectancy

Seshank Mavalapalli -
For a big democracy like India, it would need greater efforts to drive the nation on the road of perfection, writes Seshank Mavalapalli

Covid has led to drop in life expectancy in India by 2 years, study says

PTI -
The study by International Institute for Population Studies also says 35-79 age group had excess deaths caused by Covid in 2020 as compared to other years.

Covid led to biggest decrease in life expectancy since World War II, Oxford study finds

PTI -
The study found that 27 of 29 nations spanning Europe, the US and Chile saw reductions in life expectancy in 2020, and at a scale which wiped out years of progress on mortality.

How can Indians live longer? We need the Blue Zone diet

Subhasree Ray -
An average Indian diet is unhealthy. Even rich Indians don’t eat right.

How long will people live in the future? Studies say you could live up to the age of 150

John Letzing -
Researchers suggest that cellular decay behind ageing could be defeated to a point where people will no longer suffer from age-related health problems.

Women in India live longer than men but don’t have healthier lives, finds new report

Angana Chakrabarti -
World Health Statistics 2021 report finds that in India, overall life expectancy was at 70.8 years, but healthy life expectancy was at 60.3 years, trend common to other countries.

Covid-19 could cause drop in life expectancy by 1-9 years across the world, study finds

Abantika Ghosh -
Study by researchers from at least three countries has found that the effect will vary depending on Covid-19 prevalence rate and the current life expectancy in each country.

New research says humans have a natural life expectancy of 38 years

Faye Flam -
If research is right, the implications are huge — for starters, we would have to rethink our entire health care system.
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