life expectancy

Cards (4)

  • life expectancy
    -how long on average a person born in given year can expect to live
  • reasons for lower average life expectancy in 1900

    -so many infants & children didn‘t survive beyond early years
  • class, gender & regional differences
    -women generally live longer > gap has narrowed due to changes in employment & lifestyle
    -living in North & Scotland have lower life expectancy
    -working class men in unskilled/routine jobs nearly three times as likely to die before they’re 65 compared with men in professional jobs
  • Walker
    -those living in poorest areas of England die on average 7 years earlier than those in richest areas
    -the average difference in disability free life expectancy is 17 years