You have a higher chance of getting cancer at a younger age than your parents. So what went wrong?
Originally from The Guardian. Read the original article on the publisher’s site.
In the field of global health, we often talk about each generation living longer and healthier lives than their parents. We’ve seen this in the gains in life expectancy, the sharp decrease in child mortality and in the near elimination of many vaccine-preventable diseases. But since the turn of the century this progress has stalled, and in some cases several health metrics have gone backwards.
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