研究:久居北方的人壽命更短?

According to a recent research, living in the North means you are 20 percent more likely to die prematurely than those in the South. An editorial in the British Medical Journal claims that those living in northern England are a fifth more likely to die under the age of 75 and the figure has "changed little between 1965 and 2008."

最新研究顯示，久居北方的人羣的早死率要比生活在南方的人羣高出20%。最近《英國醫學雜誌》撰文稱，75歲以下的人羣中，生活在英格蘭北部者的早死率要比南部高出1/5，且該數據“在1965年到2008年沒有多大變化”。

Experts analyzed trends for English government office regions, comparing the North with the South. They looked at the North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands and West Midlands compared with the East of England, London, the South East and South West.

專家們分析了英國政府級區域的人口狀況趨勢，比較了南北部差異。比較對象分爲兩部分，一部分包括東北、西北、約克郡、亨伯、東米德蘭郡以及西米德蘭郡，另一部分則包括英格蘭東部、倫敦、東南以及西南。

The number of excess deaths among all age groups has been 14 percent higher in the North than in the South over the past four decades, according to the research. Inequality has been greater for men (15 percent) than for women (13 percent).

研究發現，40年來，北方地區各年齡段非正常死亡案例數目比南方多出了14%。比起女性羣體，這種死亡數目的差異在男性羣體中更明顯（北方男性非正常死亡案例數目比南方高15%，女性羣體中則爲13%）。

In the editorial, Margaret Whitehead, of the University of Liverpool, and Tim Doran, of the University of Manchester, call for "a national overview" of access to NHS (National Health Service) services for different communities."Otherwise, the result could be chaos and an even wider health divide," they warn.

文章中，英國利物浦大學的瑪格麗特和曼徹斯特大學的蒂姆倡導對不同地區國民健康保險制度的落實情況進行“全國性審視”，並警告稱“如不這麼做，結果將會混亂不堪，導致健康狀況分化現象更加嚴重。”