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Gerry  McCartney

Gerry McCartney

Professor of Wellbeing Economy, University of Glasgow

How the UK’s austerity policies caused life expectancy to fall

Nov 30, 2024 17:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy

Between 1945, when the second world war ended, and the start of the 2010s, average life expectancy and mortality rates in high-income countries improved continuously. But from around 2012, in the UK and in several other...

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