Those results disagree strongly with the most recent JAMA paper on the topic: http://www.vox.com/2016/4/11/11405954/health-life-expectancy-inequality-jama http

Those results disagree strongly with the most recent JAMA paper on the topic: http://www.vox.com/2016/4/11/11405954/health-life-expectancy-inequality-jama http://www.vox.com/2016/4/11/11405954/health-life-expectancy... The 2000-2010 increase in your source is ~2 years for the poorest men and ~1 year for the poorest women. The 2001-2014 increase in my source is ~.3 for poor men and ~0 for poor women. That seems like a really big gap, and I don't have a good way to reconcile them.