Reducing inequalities in health: towards a brave old world? In the past few weeks there has been a lot of interest in trends in population mortality and life expectancy. Michael Marmot pointed out that life expectancy at population level seems to have stalled, which served as a reminder that there has been concern about trends in mortality rates among older people, in 2015 in particular, but perhaps more importantly over a longer period since around 2010. Public Health England also published its first health profile for England and its interpretation of the mortality trends above.
But here I want to focus on inequalities in health, and what three very recent pieces of information and analysis tell us. The King's Fund
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