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Since 1960, life expectancy in poor countries has increased 20 years, to the mid-60's, and adult illiteracy has dropped by more than half.
More broadly, the bank said, foreign aid has added 20 years to life expectancy in poor countries in the last four decades, and has cut their illiteracy rate in half.
Because these ideas originated in the rich world and were spread by organisations such as the WHO, any improvements in health they led to would have been unconnected with prior improvements in the economic circumstances of poor countries.This international revolution in public health did lead to substantial increases in life expectancy in poor countries by the 1950s.
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The 'Preston curve' shows a positive relationship between national income levels and life expectancy in poorer countries but with smaller marginal returns at higher incomes.
Despite the fact that people live longer in the richer, more developed countries, and have greater opportunity to acquire non-fatal disabilities in older age, disability has a greater absolute (and relative) impact on healthy life expectancy in poorer countries.
The know-how needed to avoid premature death, especially of small children, travelled so readily that life expectancy in many poor countries is now not far behind the rich world's.
Closing the income divide is no longer an abstraction: life expectancy in the poor province of Guizhou is now a decade shorter than it is in Beijing; a child born on the remote Qinghai Plateau is seven times more likely to die than a child born in the capital.
Life expectancy in the poorest fifth of the UK continues to lag behind better-off areas, especially among women.
It is concerned not simply with scientific research that advances western medicine but also with poverty, injustice, environmental destruction, and war - the factors that mean life expectancy in the poorest countries is little over 30.
They also remind us that treatments that sustain life expectancy among patients in poor general health can result in emergent disease-related morbid conditions that should not be confused with iatrogenic morbid conditions.
Previous research has shown those in more affluent areas have a greater life expectancy than those in poorer ones, but researchers have found the gap is widening, with experts saying lives are being lost to preventable and treatable diseases as a result of rising poverty.
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