Punching above their weight: a network to understand broader determinants of increasing life expectancy

• Main Authors: Fran Baum (Author), Jennie Popay (Author), Toni Delany-Crowe (Author), Toby Freeman (Author), Connie Musolino (Author), Carlos Alvarez-Dardet (Author), Vinya Ariyaratne (Author), Kedar Baral (Author), Paulin Basinga (Author), Mary Bassett (Author), David M. Bishai (Author), Mickey Chopra (Author), Sharon Friel (Author), Elsa Giugliani (Author), Hideki Hashimoto (Author), James Macinko (Author), Martin McKee (Author), Huong Thanh Nguyen (Author), Nikki Schaay (Author), Orielle Solar (Author), Sundararaman Thiagarajan (Author), David Sanders (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Life expectancy initially improves rapidly with economic development but then tails off. Yet, at any level of economic development, some countries do better, and some worse, than expected - they either punch above or below their weight. Why this is the case has been previously re...