Inequality in Life Expectancy

Anne deaton and angus steton looked at the rise in mortality in middle aged non hispanic men and women. They found a gradient, with fewer years of education leading to higher death rates. The diseases that made up that rise were what they called deaths of despair - poisonings due to largely opioids, drugs, suicide and alcohol related deaths. Deaton: It's entirely consistent with what i've been writing about since we did the w h o on on social determines of health in the english review. And then i looked at this pattern of deaths of despair and thought, where have we seen that? We've seen that in glasgow, colleagues in glas Glasgow. In