Professor Gerry McCartney and David Walsh joined us for this episode.
Life expectancy is about more than just health – it’s about the kind of society we live in. And in the early 2010s, after decades of continual improvement, life expectancy in the UK, US and many other rich countries stopped increasing. For millions of people, it actually declined. Despite hundreds of thousands of extra deaths, governments and officials remained silent.
This book combines robust evidence with real-life stories to demonstrate how austerity policies caused this scandal. It argues that this shocking and tragic suffering was predictable and caused by a dereliction of duty by those in power.
The book concludes with an optimistic vision of what can be done to restore life expectancy improvements and reduce health inequalities.
New Book Published by Bristol University Press.
https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/social-murder
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