”An additional person died every seven minutes during the first 49 days of 2018 compared with what had been usual in the previous five years. Why?
In this podcast, Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder professor of geography at the university of Oxford, talks about the spike in mortality, what that means for overall life expectancy in the UK (spoiler, it’s not great) and what he thinks could be fuelling the change.
Read the full editorial
http://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k1090
For more information, this article by Dorling and Hiam has further analysis:
https://theconversation.com/rapid-rise-in-mortality-in-england-and-wales-in-early-2018-an-investigation-is-needed-93311
