Healthy life expectancy (HLE) increased by more than two years in the period 2008-10 compared with 2005-07.

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Policymakers should not be afraid to tell people they will need to work longer and that state pension ages may need to increase further as healthy life expectancy changes, she added.

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Over the two decades ended in 2010, each one-year increase in life expectancy at birth was associated with about a 10-month increase in healthy life expectancy, according to data published in the Lancet in December.

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Life expectancy isn't the same as healthy-life expectancy how long people live with full physical and mental health.

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They are worst off in the North West, where the average length of a healthy life is only 64.4 years, and overall life expectancy is 73.4 years.

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Because of this, things that normal, healthy, political oppositions would celebrate (rising wages, increased life expectancy, substantially improved social provision) are relentlessly minimized, denied, and attacked.

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In the two decades since 1990, life expectancy has risen by 4.6%, but healthy life by only 3%.

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Likewise, their findings about life expectancy depend on the Japanese, whose longevity is more likely to be due to a healthy diet than to a flat income distribution.

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