The Importance of Life Expectancy

The government has said that it's made lots of noises about how it wants to get life expectancy generally up but it's got quite unrealistic goals, says Abdul. Life expectancy is one of those things that sort of takes the temperature generally of how a country is doing and so it kind of comes right at the end of you can't just sort of put into place one life expectancy policy and expectancy result It sort of floats above or above policy according to Abdul.