What can the UK learn from the impact of grant populations on national life expectancy?

Hiam, Lucinda, Zhang, Claire X, Burns, Rachel, Darlington-Pollock, Frances ORCID: 0000-0001-5544-4459, Wallace, Matthew and McKee, Martin (2022) What can the UK learn from the impact of grant populations on national life expectancy? JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, 44 (4). E499-E505.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdac013

Abstract

Improvements in life expectancy at birth in the UK had stalled prior to 2020 and have fallen during the COVID-19 pandemic. The stagnation took place at a time of relatively high net migration, yet we know that migrants to Australia, the USA and some Nordic countries have positively impacted national life expectancy trends, outperforming native-born populations in terms of life expectancy. It is important to ascertain whether migrants have contributed positively to life expectancy in the UK, concealing worsening trends in the UK-born population, or whether relying on national life expectancy calculations alone may have masked excess mortality in migrant populations. We need a better understanding of the role and contribution of migrant populations to national life expectancy trends in the UK.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	migration, public health
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	22 Nov 2022 18:09
Last Modified:	01 Jul 2023 02:36
DOI:	10.1093/pubmed/fdac013
Open Access URL:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC93836...
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3166326