Life expectancy and the Global Burden of Disease 1990-2016: little cause for complacency.

Life expectancy and the Global Burden of Disease 1990-2016: little cause for complacency. Ann Hum Biol. 2019 Apr 16;:1-5 Authors: Ellison G Abstract While the omission of behavioural and mechanistic factors from the BBC's "Life Expectancy Calculator" might undermine its utility as a health promotion tool, the centrality of these factors within the GBD 2016 Risk Factor Collaborators' analyses - which only detected "important changes" in behavioural (tobacco, alcohol and diet) and mechanistic (low birthweight, short gestation, BMI, blood pressure, fasting glucose) factors - undermines the "important" role that country-level variation in political, social and structural factors plays in the availability of those opportunities, circumstances, habits and behaviours necessary to deliver consistent, resilient and sustained mechanistic improvements in life expectancy. PMID: 30990100 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Annals of Human Biology - Category: Biology Tags: Ann Hum Biol Source Type: research