Background Life expectancy inequalities in England have increased steadily since the
1980s. Our aim was to investigate how much deaths from different diseases and injuries and …

Background Low socioeconomic position is consistently associated with increased risk of
premature death. The aim of this study is to measure the aggregate scale of inequality in …

Background High-resolution data for how mortality and longevity have changed in England,
UK are scarce. We aimed to estimate trends from 2002 to 2019 in life expectancy and …

Background To plan for pensions and health and social services, future mortality and life
expectancy need to be forecast. Consistent forecasts for all subnational units within a …

Background Since 2010, the rate of improvement in life expectancy in the UK has slowed.
We aimed to put this trend in the context of changes over the long term and in relation to a …

Background Since 2010, large reductions in funding for local government services have
been introduced in England. These reductions in funding have potentially led to reduced …

Current measures of population health lack indicators capturing the variability in age-at-
morbidity onset, an important marker to assess the timing patterns of individuals' health …

Background Socioeconomic inequalities in longevity have been found in all European
countries. We aimed to assess which determinants make the largest contribution to these …

Background Reducing lifespan inequality is increasingly recognized as a health policy
objective. Whereas lifespan inequality declined with rising longevity in most developed …

Introduction An important role of public health organisations is to monitor indicators of
variation, so as to disclose underlying inequality in health improvement. In industrialised …