A Public Health Viewpoint on the Future of Human Longevity (opens in new tab)

A sizable proportion of past gains in human life expectancy arose from public health strategies to better control the burden of infectious disease. Exposure to pathogens doesn't just increase the risk of an earlier death due to fatal infection, but also places a burden of damage on the survivors that increases late life mortality. Researchers here discuss what the future of public health strategies might look like in the context of the present great shift from medicine that does not even cons...