Britons now live in one of the most unequal countries in the world, according to a new report based on six years of research.

We summarise the breadth of inequalities in the UK, their interconnected nature, and why policymakers need to carefully ...

Metric gives fuller picture than life expectancy, which is simply how long people live, says Health Foundation ...

Read more about the UK’s recent decline in healthy life expectancy and the widening gap between affluent and deprived areas.

A new report says the average number of years people in the UK spend in good health has fallen by about two years over the last decade. The decline has been especially severe in poorer parts of the ...

A drop in healthy life expectancy is explained through many causes: obesity, alcohol, drugs, suicide, chronic disease, ...

In 2024, the maternal mortality rate (MMR) in the United States and the United Kingdom will grow, although postmortem reviews conclude that 80 percent of maternal deaths in high-income countries are ...

Letters: Deprivation and inequality are behind the fall in healthy life expectancy, writes George Binette. Plus letters from Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, Dr Louise Lawson and Chris Phillipson ...

Inequality is bad for you, and new figures in the UK show that the number of years when people can live healthy lives have ...