Britain’s quarter century: experts in sex, mental health, nutrition and addiction assess the nation’s changing wellbeing

In this fourth part in our series on how the UK has changed in the past 25 years, we look at health. Life expectancy and illness Michael Murphy, Emeritus Professor of Demography, London School of Economics A good way to follow the health of a nation is to glance at what is known as period life-expectancy. This calculates how long a person born today would live if the current death rates remained exactly the same for the rest of their life. This had two major turning points in the UK over the…