More people globally are living longer, but many of those extra years are spent experiencing disability and diseases, according to a new report in Lancet Public Health.“The central finding is that we are adding years to life faster than we are adding health to those years,” Simon I. Hays, DPhil, DSc, FMedSci, director of research strategy at the Institute for Health Metrics and

People are living longer than ever before, but a major new global study suggests that many of those additional years are increasingly being spent in poor health.

More people globally are living longer, but many of those extra years are spent experiencing disability and diseases, according to a new report in Lancet Public Health.“The…