尽管我们的寿命延长了，但英国的健康预期寿命数据并不乐观。安迪·伯纳姆必须扭转这一趋势，以保护国民医疗服务体系（NHS）和社会福利。
Although we’re living longer, the data on healthy life expectancy in the UK isn’t good. Andy Burnham must reverse this trend to protect the NHS and social care Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh, and the author of How Not to Die (Too Soon) The prime minister has put forward his bold proposal for a universal, NHS-style social care service.
爱丁堡大学全球公共卫生教授德维·斯里达尔（Devi Sridhar）是《如何避免过早死亡》（How Not to Die (Too Soon)）一书的作者。首相提出了建立全民性、类似NHS的社会福利服务的大胆建议。
In doing so, Andy Burnham has put the spotlight back on one of the major challenges facing almost everywhere in the world: how to manage the demographic changes linked to an ageing society.
这一提议再次凸显了全球几乎所有国家都面临的一个主要挑战：如何应对与老龄化社会相关的人口结构变化。
It’s an important discussion. But what if government didn’t just look at how to care for people in their later years and instead spent real political capital on policies to help people live longer independently, and in good health?
虽然过去半个世纪里几乎所有国家的平均寿命都在延长，但健康预期寿命却持续下降。
The data isn’t pretty on this. While the trend over the past half-century in almost all countries has been for people to live longer, life expectancy has been consistently falling.