Publications by authors named "Lucinda Hiam"
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- Seventeen percent of the UK population are migrants, and while they generally have better overall mortality rates, they face higher deaths from certain causes like infectious diseases.
- A study conducted in England and Wales during 2020-2021 found that most migrants had higher mortality rates from COVID-19 compared to non-migrants, particularly those from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and the Caribbean.
- The findings highlight the need for policymakers to consider migration status in data collection to better understand and address health inequalities among different populations.
Background: England and Wales experienced a stagnation of previously improving life expectancy during the 2010s. Public bodies cited influenza as an important cause.
Sources Of Data: We used data from the Office for National Statistics to examine mortality attributed directly to influenza and to all influenza-like diseases for the total population of England and Wales 2010-19.
Objectives: The number of deaths occurring in private homes in England and Wales had been rising for years, increasingly rapidly from 2020. Media stories and research linked decomposing bodies found in private homes with pandemic-related social isolation. We aim to explore whether these incidents are one-offs or part of a wider trend.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The 'second-generation' (i.e. the children of migrants) represent one of the fastest growing subpopulations of the child and young adult populations in Europe today.
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- The study explored the views of public health experts on the decline in life expectancy in England and Wales over the past decade, focusing on causes and potential solutions.
- A total of 12 experts participated in semistructured interviews, revealing no consensus on the reasons for the stalling or reversal in life expectancy, with some attributing it to data misinterpretation and health inequalities.
- Most experts emphasized the need to address these underlying issues and to invest in public health measures to better prepare for future pandemics.
Improvements in life expectancy at birth in the UK had stalled prior to 2020 and have fallen during the COVID-19 pandemic. The stagnation took place at a time of relatively high net migration, yet we know that migrants to Australia, the USA and some Nordic countries have positively impacted national life expectancy trends, outperforming native-born populations in terms of life expectancy. It is important to ascertain whether migrants have contributed positively to life expectancy in the UK, concealing worsening trends in the UK-born population, or whether relying on national life expectancy calculations alone may have masked excess mortality in migrant populations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: In most countries, life expectancy at birth (e0) has improved for many decades. Recently, however, progress has stalled in the UK and Canada, and reversed in the USA. Lifespan variation, a complementary measure of mortality, increased a few years before the reversal in the USA.
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