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The contribution of changes to tax and social security to stalled life expectancy trends in Scotland: a modelling study

BACKGROUND: Life expectancy (LE) improvements have stalled, and UK tax and welfare ‘reforms’ have been proposed as a cause. We estimated the effects of tax and welfare reforms from 2010/2011 to 2021/2022 on LE and inequalities in LE in Scotland. METHODS: We applied a published estimate of the cumula...

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Autores principales: Richardson, Elizabeth, Taulbut, Martin, Robinson, Mark, Pulford, Andrew, McCartney, Gerry
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7958084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33082131
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2020-214770