demographics 3
- Life expectancy is not a prediction of how long people alive today will live.
- Every predicted ceiling on human life expectancy has so far been broken.
Saloni Dattani
Researcher at Our World in Data with a PhD in psychiatric genetics, and founding editor of Works in Progress. Writes Scientific Discovery, a newsletter on medical research and long-run trends in health and mortality.
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innovation 3
- Medical innovation is at a point of divergence: the tools are improving rapidly, but the ambition to use them has fallen behind.
- The pace of medical innovation can be sped up or slowed down by policy, funding and institutional choices.
ambition 2
- People who want to become more widely read rarely think about the responsibility that comes with a larger audience.
- Medical innovation is at a point of divergence: the tools are improving rapidly, but the ambition to use them has fallen behind.