Taking years off your life – NI life expectancy deprivation gaps show increase over last decade
When I asked Billy Hutchinson on Wednesday about the lack of publicity around any PUP campaigning on health and life expectancy, I was thinking about the kind of life expectancy figures that have been released yesterday by the Department of Health in their Inequalities Monitoring System/Life Expectancy Decomposition comparative report: Chapter 4 deals with the deprivation gap: The male life expectancy deprivation gap was 4.5 years in 2008-10 which represents a 10% increase from 2001-03. The female life expectancy gap …