More people globally are living longer, but many of those extra years are spent experiencing disability and diseases, according to a new report in Lancet Public Health.
“The central finding is that we are adding years to life faster than we are adding health to those years,” Simon I. Hays, DPhil, DSc, FMedSci, director of research strategy at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), told Healio.
Several recent IHME reports have indicated encouraging jumps in life expectancy over the last couple years, with a 2025 study showing that life expectancy returned to prepandemic rates in