[Perspectives] Life expectancy: public health and politics
Devi Sridhar's new book How Not to Die (Too Soon): The Lies We've Been Sold and the Policies That Can Save Us sets out her hope of living to the age of 100 years in good health “as a collective endeavour”, an aim many share. Improving the length of life lived in good health, however, would be my priority and needs to be a health and economic policy imperative for national governments globally. Nonetheless, this book's exploration of how to live longer is illuminating, with Sridhar emphasising life expectancy “is much less about your own choices and is instead tightly linked to where you live and the political choices made by your government”.
Devi Sridhar's new book How Not to Die (Too Soon): The Lies We've Been Sold and the Policies That Can Save Us sets out her hope of living to the age of 100 years in good health “as a collective endeavour”, an aim many share. Improving the length of life lived in good health, however, would be my priority and needs to be a health and economic policy imperative for national governments globally. Nonetheless, this book's exploration of how to live longer is illuminating, with Sridhar emphasising life expectancy “is much less about your own choices and is instead tightly linked to where you live and the political choices made by your government”.
