According to a recent study of all major diseases and injuries in 188 countries, people around the world are living longer, but many are also living sicker lives for longer.
According to the study published in The Lancet journal, life expectancy has drastically improved but people are living longer with illness.
Theo Vos, a professor at the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington said “The world has made great progress in health, but now the challenge is to invest in finding more effective ways of preventing or treating the major causes of illness and disability.”
The researchers insisted that for most of the 188 countries studied, changes in healthy life expectancy between 1990 and 2013 were significant and positive.
In some countries like South Africa, Paraguay, and Belarus, healthy life expectancy has dropped. In Lesotho and Swaziland, people born in 2013 could expect to live some 10 fewer healthy years than people born there 20 years earlier.