Progress Stalled? The Uncertain Future of Health and Mortality in the US, UK, and high-income countries.
Hybrid event
Steady and significant improvements in life expectancy have been a bright spot for human progress for the last century or more. Recently, this success has shown signs of faltering in some high-income countries such as the US and UK, where mortality improvements have slowed or even reversed since the early 2010s. Combined with the large mortality shock of the COVID-19 pandemic, guaranteed forward progress feels less certain. In this talk, I review recent trends and discuss prospects for the future of mortality in high-income countries, including lingering impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, challenges and opportunities related to the obesity epidemic, and emerging reasons for both optimism and pessimism.

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This talk is part of the DSPI Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2024
Date: 7 November 2024, 16:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Venue: 32-42 Wellington Square (Barnett House), 32-42 Wellington Square OX1 2ER
Speaker: Professor Jennifer Dowd (University of Oxford)
Organising department: Department of Social Policy and Intervention
Organiser: Dr Gabriela Pavarini (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: communications@spi.ox.ac.uk
Part of: DSPI Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2024
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://forms.office.com/e/qT2R9rL7YG
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editors: Faith Inch, Zoe Burns