{"id":5253,"date":"2024-03-31T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T20:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5253"},"modified":"2024-04-04T01:31:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T05:31:41","slug":"covid-19-brings-down-healthy-life-expectancy-in-the-u-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-brings-down-healthy-life-expectancy-in-the-u-k\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 Brings Down Healthy Life Expectancy In The U.K."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People born recently in England and Wales can expect to spend fewer years of their life in good health than those born over a decade ago, official figures show.<\/p>\n<p>Covid-19, healthcare delays and an increase in long-term sickness are likely factors in this decline. But the Office of National Statistics figures also reflect deeper social issues like widespread inequality, say experts.<\/p>\n<p>Men born in England from 2020 to 2022 can expect to spend between 62.4 years of their life in good health \u2014 9.3&nbsp;months less than those born from 2011 to 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Women in England can expect to live 62.7 years in good health, which is a drop of 1.5&nbsp;years in just over a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People born recently in England and Wales can expect to spend fewer years of their life in good health than those born over a decade ago, official figures show.<\/p>\n<p>Covid-19, healthcare delays and an increase in long-term sickness are likely factors in this decline. But the Office of National Statistics figures also reflect deeper social issues like widespread inequality, say experts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-brings-down-healthy-life-expectancy-in-the-u-k\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Covid-19 Brings Down Healthy Life Expectancy In The U.K.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,752,405,74,14,230,50,931],"class_list":["post-5253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-england","tag-europe","tag-life-expectancy","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-statistics","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5256,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253\/revisions\/5256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}