{"id":88243,"date":"2021-03-22T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/?p=1149012"},"modified":"2021-03-22T13:02:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T13:02:00","slug":"poverty-takes-up-to-20-years-of-good-health-away-from-people-in-england-and-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/03\/22\/poverty-takes-up-to-20-years-of-good-health-away-from-people-in-england-and-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Poverty takes up to 20 years of good health away from people in England and Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"
People living in the most deprived areas of England face a gap of almost two decades of life in good general health compared with those in the least deprived areas, new figures show.<\/p>\n
Office for National Statistics (ONS) data published on Monday shows healthy life expectancy at birth among men living in the most deprived areas was 52.3 years in 2017 to 2019, compared with 70.7 years among those living in the least deprived areas.<\/p>\n
This amounts to a difference of 18.4 years in \u201cgood\u201d general health between these populations across their life course.<\/p>\n
Women in the most deprived areas could expect to live 51.4 years in \u201cgood\u201d health compared with 71.2 years in the least deprived areas \u2013 a difference of 19.8 years in \u201cgood\u201d general health.<\/p>\n
Healthy life expectancy is an estimate of lifetime spent in \u201cvery good\u201d or \u201cgood\u201d health, based on how individuals perceive their general health, the ONS said.<\/p>\n
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