When experts disagree: interviews with public health experts on health outcomes in the UK 2010-2020.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To ascertain the views of public health experts on adverse trends in life expectancy across England and Wales over the past decade, causal factors, possible solutions, and their opinions about how the prepandemic situation influenced the UK's COVID-19 response.

Study design

Semistructured, in-depth interviews.

Methods

Nineteen public health experts were identified by purposeful sampling and invited to take part via e-mail. Sixty-three percent responded and participated (n = 12), six females and six males. Interviews took place via Microsoft Teams between November 2021 and January 2022. Interviews were transcribed and analysed using thematic content analysis.

Results

There was no consensus on the significance of the stalling and, at some ages, reversa

SUBMITTER: Hiam L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9754903 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature