Life expectancy is falling, and the Flynn effect is reversing. Both increased due to better nutrition, healthcare, and reduction of toxins (especially lead). Did we put something significant into our food, water or air to make it worse again?
But the data don't apply to the time of the financial crisis. Also, if you consider the result to be psychological, would you not expect that younger people are less resilient than old ones, so health goes down at all ages, instead of just seeing a reduction in healthy years?
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Ok, I looked up "healthy life expectancy" and the newest data. It doesn't look that bad now. Short explanation how the number is calculated: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/metadata/Annexes/hlth_hlye_esms_an1.pdf … It's heavily based on surveys. It seems it has been changed in 2004. It's suspicious there is no older data there.pic.twitter.com/5z8EK1SbB6
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Thank you, and apologies for thinking that maybe you did not read the paper when you actually did so quite carefully!
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