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| Life expectancies in the United Kingdom and Japan | | Author(s) | Shigeyuki Nakaji, Domhnall MacAuley, Siobhan O'Neill |
| Journal title | Journal of Public Health Medicine, vol 25, no 2, June 2003 |
| Pages | pp 120-124 |
| Keywords | Life expectancy tables ; Longitudinal surveys ; Correlation ; Japan ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | Compared with other developed countries, the UK has exhibited less of an increase in life expectancy over the past 30 years. The authors compared chronological changes in age-adjusted mortality rates (AMRs) from all causes or major causes, and in life expectancy in the UK and Japan between 1970 and 1997. In both 1970 and 1997, the AMRs for most major causes were higher in the UK than Japan; the differences in the AMR between the countries were smaller in 1970 than in 1997. The difference in AMR from all causes between the UK and Japan in 1997 was mainly due to differences in the AMR for heart disease. The trend for an increasing difference over time between the UK and Japan in the AMR for all causes was due to the decreased rate of AMR from heart disease from 1970 to 1997 in the UK being lower than those from cardiovascular disease in the same period in Japan. The data suggest that mortality rates could be reduced by a change of focus of the National Health Service (NHS) toward an emphasis on primary rather than secondary prevention and associated clinical interventions. The greatest priority should be on reducing the incidence of heart disease by aggressively improving primary prevention. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030923204 A |
| Classmark | S7: 3J: 49: 7DT: 8 |
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