England could have lowest disease burden in the world, new research reveals

England could have the lowest disease burden in the world – that is years of life lost to death and lived with disability – a new Public Health England study has revealed. The study, published in The Lancet, ranks the diseases and risk factors that cause death and disability in England compared with other high-income countries. It found that between 1990 and 2013, life expectancy in England increased by 5.4 years, from 75.9 years in 1990 to 81.3 years in 2013. This was one of the biggest increases compared with the other EU15+ countries. Improvements have been made in a