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A History of Work-Disability

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Since the early 1970s, there have been marked improvements in the aggregate health status of the UK population. Between 1980/2 and 2008/10, life expectancy at birth increased from 70.81 years to 78.05 years for males, and from 76.80 years to 82.12 years for females. Life expectancy at age 65 also increased over the same period — by 4.3 years for males and 3.5 years for females. Between 1968 and 2008, age-standardised mortality rates for men and women declined by 51% and 43% respectively, and now stand at their lowest-ever recorded level. Strikingly, coronary deaths have halved in the last ten years.

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    Colin Lindsay

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Macnicol, J. (2013). A History of Work-Disability. In: Lindsay, C., Houston, D. (eds) Disability Benefits, Welfare Reform and Employment Policy. Work and Welfare in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137314277_3

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