copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Northern Ireland eats more meat than in the rest of the UK. (Malachái O’Hara, 2018-10-22)
Evidence (2023-09-18): It was Finnebrogue Naked that first demonstrated in the UK in 2018 that nitrate-free bacon butties were possible. Based in Northern Ireland, the company started out making sausages for M&S, but the WHO’s 2015 report on processed meat gave them an idea. "We thought: we’ve got all this volume of pork; why don’t we step in and try and do this the ‘proper’ way?" says Jago Pearson, chief strategy officer at Finnebrogue. In 2018, the company launched its Naked Bacon (now renamed Better Naked) brand and began producing M&S’s own label nitrate-free bacon. Now it’s supplying Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Waitrose, Asda and Morrisons.
Claim: Northern Ireland eats more meat than in the rest of the UK. (Malachái O’Hara, 2018-10-22)
Evidence (2019-02-04): When we compare consumption across different countries we see that, typically, the richer we are the more meat we eat. [...] It is clear that the richest countries eat a lot of meat, and those on low incomes eat little. This has been the case for 50 years or more. So why are we collectively eating so much more meat?
Claim: People in the RoI can expect to live a healthy life for almost a decade longer than those in NI - 69.4 years compared to 61 years. (David McWilliams, 2023-03-04)
Evidence (2023-03-04): Healthy life expectancy (HLE) is the number of years someone can expect to live in good health: for NI, the current estimate for HLE is around 62 years while, for Ireland, it is 69.4 years
Claim: People in the RoI can expect to live a healthy life for almost a decade longer than those in NI - 69.4 years compared to 61 years. (David McWilliams, 2023-03-04)
Evidence (2023-12-18): - Healthy life expectancy (HLE) is the number of years someone can expect to live in good health: for NI, the current estimate for HLE is around 62 years while, for Ireland, it is 69.4 years - However, Northern Ireland uses a different definition of good health, meaning direct comparisons between the two figures are ill-advised - Analysis of other HLE estimates indicates the gap between NI and ROI is nowhere near ten years [...] "The average person in the Republic can expect to live a healthy life for almost a full decade longer than people in the North. The figure for the North is 61 years and the corresponding one for the Republic is 69.4 years." [...] When other estimates for healthy life expectancy are considered, it becomes clear that the gap between NI and RoI is nowhere near a decade.
Claim: People in the RoI can expect to live a healthy life for almost a decade longer than those in NI - 69.4 years compared to 61 years. (David McWilliams, 2023-03-04)
Evidence (2024-01-03): This data is based on the following sources [...] "Data Page: Healthy life expectancy". Our World in Data (2024). Data adapted from World Health Organization. Retrieved from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/healthy-life-expectancy-at-birth [online resource] [...] World Health Organization - Global Health Observatory (2024) – processed by Our World in Data. "Healthy life expectancy" [dataset]. World Health Organization, "Global Health Observatory" [original data]. Retrieved October 9, 2024 from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/healthy-life-expectancy-at-birth
Claim: People in the RoI can expect to live a healthy life for almost a decade longer than those in NI - 69.4 years compared to 61 years. (David McWilliams, 2023-03-04)
Evidence (2024-10-07): Advances in public health and medicine during the twentieth century increased human life expectancy to about three years per decade. But Olshansky and others have long argued that this rate of improvement is not sustainable, despite more-optimistic forecasts that predict most children born in the twenty-first century would live for a 100 years or more2. But this is difficult to confirm, because the only way to be sure is to wait for enough people to die, or not. [...] It’s clear that further extension of the average lifespan is difficult because that would require researchers to find treatments for illnesses that affect older people, says Dmitri Jdanov, a demographer at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany. Jdanov wrote, together with his colleague Domantas Jasilionis, an accompanying commentary on the paper. Both articles are published in Nature Aging today. [...] National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH
Claim: People in the RoI can expect to live a healthy life for almost a decade longer than those in NI - 69.4 years compared to 61 years. (David McWilliams, 2023-03-04)
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Claim: People in the RoI can expect to live a healthy life for almost a decade longer than those in NI - 69.4 years compared to 61 years. (David McWilliams, 2023-03-04)
Evidence (2024-07-19): Healthy life years statistics [...] In the EU, the number of healthy life years at birth in 2022 was 62.8 years for women and 62.4 years for men, a gender gap of 0.4 years. Life expectancy in 2022 was 83.3 years for women and 77.9 years for men, a gap of 5.4 years. As the gender gap was considerably smaller in terms of healthy life years than it was for overall life expectancy, most of the additional years of life expectancy for women tend to be lived with activity limitations. Therefore, men tended to spend a greater share (80.1%) of their somewhat shorter lives free from activity limitations than women (75.4%). [...] Healthy life years also monitor health as a productive or economic factor. An increase in healthy life years is 1 of the main goals of the EU's health policy, given that this would not only improve the situation of individuals (as good health and a long life are fundamental objectives of human activity) but also lead to lower public healthcare expenditure and likely increase the possibility that people continue to work later into life. If healthy life years increase more rapidly than life expectancy, then not only are people living longer, but they are also living a greater share of their lives free from health problems.
Claim: People in the RoI can expect to live a healthy life for almost a decade longer than those in NI - 69.4 years compared to 61 years. (David McWilliams, 2023-03-04)
Evidence (2024-06-25): Longevity: Lifestyle strategies for living a healthy, long life - Reviewed by Robert H. Shmerling, MD, Senior Faculty Editor, Harvard Health Publishing; Editorial Advisory Board Member, Harvard Health Publishing If longevity runs in your family, you have a better chance of living longer. But genetics is only part of the equation: the lifestyle choices you make play a big role in living longer, staying healthy, and being able to continue doing the things you love. [...] Adopting and maintaining healthy behaviors can go a long way toward living a long, healthy life.
Claim: People in the RoI can expect to live a healthy life for almost a decade longer than those in NI - 69.4 years compared to 61 years. (David McWilliams, 2023-03-04)
Evidence (2019-06-07): People are living longer. Improved working conditions, reduced smoking rates and improved healthcare have all contributed to increasing life expectancy from generation to generation. Enter your age and sex in our calculator to find out your life expectancy, and the likelihood of you living to be 100 years old. [...] Last updated: 30th January 2024.
Claim: People in the RoI can expect to live a healthy life for almost a decade longer than those in NI - 69.4 years compared to 61 years. (David McWilliams, 2023-03-04)
Evidence (2019-12-27): Irish people are living longer, healthier lives, though access to healthcare remains an issue: Department of Health publishes Health in Ireland - Key Trends 2019 [...] Life expectancy in Ireland has increased by almost two and a half years since 2007, with male life expectancy consistently higher than the EU average throughout the last decade, and female life expectancy surpassing the EU average in 2017. [...] At 80.4 years, life expectancy for women in Ireland is 3.6 years longer than for men in 2017; however, this gap has narrowed from 5.3 in 1997 and is now at its lowest since the 1950s (Table 1.6).
Claim: People in the RoI can expect to live a healthy life for almost a decade longer than those in NI - 69.4 years compared to 61 years. (David McWilliams, 2023-03-04)
Evidence (2022-11-11): Today, the vast majority of adults across the world can expect to live decades past retirement age. The number of older adults1 will more than double to an estimated 1.6 billion by mid-century,2 marking one of the most profound demographic shifts in human history. However, while global society should celebrate having, on average, an additional 20 years of life expectancy since 1960,3 it has not been as successful in extending the span of healthy life. A person on average will live ten more years in medium or poor health, impacting the ability to live life fully and leading to increases in care and dependency. [...] People living in high-income countries enjoy up to a 27-year difference in healthy life expectancy (HLE) at birth, compared with people born in low- and medium-income countries.25 However, within a country, the HLE can vary widely—for example, in England, people living in the least advantaged areas have a 19-year lower HLE than those in the most advantaged areas.26 [...] At a time of rapid demographic change, it is vital to seize this opportunity to promote healthy aging and participation for older adults. Whether considering one’s own mortality, the aging of family members, or the greying of the workforce, it’s important to ask: How can people live longer in better health? MHI, in its focus on "adding years to life and life to years," believes healthy aging is an imperative. People should expect and demand an extended health span in their older years and will need to decide on how to use this capacity.
Claim: People in the RoI can expect to live a healthy life for almost a decade longer than those in NI - 69.4 years compared to 61 years. (David McWilliams, 2023-03-04)
Evidence (2024-02-22): Robine J-M, Romieu I, Cambois E. Health expectancy indicators. Bull World Health Organ. 1999;77:181. [...] Martinez R, Morsch P, Soliz P, Hommes C, Ordunez P, Vega E. Life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, and burden of disease in older people in the Americas, 1990–2019: a population-based study. Revista Panam De Salud Pública. 2021;45. [...] Keating N. A research framework for the United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021–2030). Eur J Ageing. 2022;19:775–87.
Claim: People in the RoI can expect to live a healthy life for almost a decade longer than those in NI - 69.4 years compared to 61 years. (David McWilliams, 2023-03-04)
Evidence (2024-10-01): People worldwide are living longer. Today most people can expect to live into their sixties and beyond. Every country in the world is experiencing growth in both the size and the proportion of older persons in the population. [...] The United Nations (UN) General Assembly declared 2021–2030 the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing and asked WHO to lead the implementation. The UN Decade of Healthy Ageing is a global collaboration bringing together governments, civil society, international agencies, professionals, academia, the media and the private sector for 10 years of concerted, catalytic and collaborative action to foster longer and healthier lives. [...] The UN Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021–2030) seeks to reduce health inequities and improve the lives of older people, their families and communities through collective action in four areas: changing how we think, feel and act towards age and ageism; developing communities in ways that foster the abilities of older people; delivering person-centred integrated care and primary health services responsive to older people; and providing older people who need it with access to quality long-term care.
Claim: People in the RoI can expect to live a healthy life for almost a decade longer than those in NI - 69.4 years compared to 61 years. (David McWilliams, 2023-03-04)
Evidence (2024-01-01): Healthy Life Expectancy (HALE) [...] Healthy Life Expectancy reflects the overall burden of disease and injury in a population and helps to quantify the number of years individuals can expect to live in full health, free from disease and disability. [...] Healthy Life Expectancy (World)
Claim: People in the RoI can expect to live a healthy life for almost a decade longer than those in NI - 69.4 years compared to 61 years. (David McWilliams, 2023-03-04)
Evidence (2022-03-29): Health inequity remains a major problem, with disparities in access and outcomes persisting between and within countries and regions and across gender, wealth, and other demographic identifiers. There is an 18-year gap in average life expectancy between low- and high-income countries, and a 30-year gap between the lowest and highest life expectancy.2526 Maternal mortality rates are 50 or even 100 times higher in some low-income countries than in high-income countries.27 Childhood cancer survival rates are above 80 percent in high-income countries, but as low as 30 percent in LMICs.28 In New York City, Black non-Hispanic women are eight times more likely to die of pregnancy-related complications than White women.29 In England, the residents of London have a life expectancy three years longer than their fellow citizens in the North East.30 Globally, women’s mental and emotional health is at its lowest in 15 years and significantly below the overall population average.31 While there is some increasing awareness among healthcare stakeholders regarding sex- and gender-related needs, gaps remain. For example, women make up only one-third of cardiovascular clinical trial participants globally, and large knowledge gaps exist in gender-specific mechanisms and optimal drug doses for women in heart failure.32 [...] First, many countries across income levels have, in recent history, achieved significant gains in healthy life expectancy within a decade: 3.8 years in Bolivia, 3.0 years in Ireland, 2.6 in Oman, 6.5 years in South Africa and 4.5 years in Thailand.34 There are also countries and regions—the so-called blue zones—that appear to have achieved particularly high levels of longevity and stronger health in older age.35
Claim: People in the RoI can expect to live a healthy life for almost a decade longer than those in NI - 69.4 years compared to 61 years. (David McWilliams, 2023-03-04)
Evidence (2024-10-02): Global life expectancy to increase by nearly 5 years by 2050 despite geopolitical, metabolic, and environmental threats, reports new global study [...] As the disease burden continues to shift from CMNNs to NCDs and from years of life lost (YLLs) to years lived with disability (YLDs), more people are expected to live longer, but with more years spent in poor health. Global life expectancy is forecasted to increase from 73.6 years of age in 2022 to 78.1 years of age in 2050 (a 4.5-year increase). Global healthy life expectancy (HALE) – the average number of years a person can expect to live in good health – will increase from 64.8 years in 2022 to 67.4 years in 2050 (a 2.6-year increase). [...] To come to these conclusions, the study forecasts cause-specific mortality; YLLs; YLDs; disability-adjusted life years (DALYs, or lost years of healthy life due to poor health and early death); life expectancy; and HALE from 2022 through 2050 for 204 countries and territories.
Claim: People in the RoI can expect to live a healthy life for almost a decade longer than those in NI - 69.4 years compared to 61 years. (David McWilliams, 2023-03-04)
Evidence (2014-08-09): View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2019.04.003 [...] View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2016.10.003 [...] View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2016.11.005
Claim: People in the RoI can expect to live a healthy life for almost a decade longer than those in NI - 69.4 years compared to 61 years. (David McWilliams, 2023-03-04)
Evidence (2024-02-06): Data refers to 2009. [...] Data refers to 2005. [...] Data from the Ministry of Social Development and Family, and Dipres.
Claim: People in the RoI can expect to live a healthy life for almost a decade longer than those in NI - 69.4 years compared to 61 years. (David McWilliams, 2023-03-04)
Evidence (2024-01-01): This publication was compiled during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results contained in this publication reflect some of the demographic and social impacts of COVID-19. Additional information and methodological detail are contained in the background notes of this release. [...] Go to: Background Notes Learn about our data and confidentiality safeguards, and the steps we take to produce statistics that can be trusted by all.
Claim: People in the RoI can expect to live a healthy life for almost a decade longer than those in NI - 69.4 years compared to 61 years. (David McWilliams, 2023-03-04)
Evidence (2024-10-02): Notes - ^ Elevation adjusted to North American Vertical Datum of 1988. [...] - ^ "Data" (PDF). Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 4, 2024. Retrieved April 5, 2024. [...] - ^ Bergeron, Tom. "Every state is looking to take business from Georgia — here's why N.J. has legitimate chance to do so". ROI NJ. Archived from the original on April 5, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
Claim: People in the RoI can expect to live a healthy life for almost a decade longer than those in NI - 69.4 years compared to 61 years. (David McWilliams, 2023-03-04)
Evidence (2019-06-11): The researchers had an a priori hypothesis that there would be involvement of the amygdala and insula for empathy. Thus, they used a region of interest (ROI) analysis for the bilateral amygdala and insula. The authors found that older adults with higher levels of emotional empathy outside the scanner on the Multifaceted Empathy Test showed greater deactivation in both the bilateral amygdala and the right insula while completing the N-back task (the measure of working memory). This suggests that older adults with higher emotional empathy in response to others may show decreased activation in regions relevant to emotional empathy (amygdala and insula) when experiencing greater working memory load. The authors suggest that, in this case, the amygdala may be playing a role in working memory and cognitive control and that individuals who experience high empathy may potentially experience more efficient emotion regulation in the same brain regions as those that are important for working memory. [...] Consistent with the Riva and colleagues study (33), Chen and colleagues found that older adults showed less activity than younger adults in the right AI in response to empathizing with others’ physical pain and that greater averseness to others’ pain was positively associated with activity in the anterior mid-cingulate cortex. These findings are consistent with two brain regions that have been implicated in the experience of empathy towards the pain of others in studies of younger adults, the AI and anterior cingulate (12, 76–79). [...] Jennifer Streiffer Mascaro, Emory University, United StatesSina Radke, RWTH Aachen Universität, Germany
Claim: More residents want peace walls to stay. (Ulster University, 2015-01-12)
Evidence (2015-01-12): This claim is accurate. While the findings from the 2015 survey are mixed, as they have also been in previous studies, there is some evidence that relationships between single identity communities along peace walls have grown more suspicious, and that the appetite for change evident in a previous 2012 survey has diminished slightly.
Claim: More residents want peace walls to stay. (Ulster University, 2015-01-12)
Evidence (2022-02-26): In December 2015, the BBC published an article stating that there has been a rise in the number of residents who want peace walls in Northern Ireland to remain standing. This is based on a study on the public attitudes to the peace walls carried out by Ulster University, in the context of the Northern Ireland Executive’s ‘Together: Building a United Community’ (TBUC) strategy, published in May 2013, which included a target of removing all peace walls by 2023. The strategy states, "Taking down interface barriers is not something that can be achieved without engagement, consent and support with the people who live there." [...] In the specific context of peace walls, a 2015 study found that 30% of those surveyed wanted the walls to remain, while 49% wanted them taken down. 57% of research participants identifying as Catholic want the "peace wall" taken down either now or in the future. Only 34% of research participants identifying as Protestants feel the same. [...] There has also been an increase in the proportion of respondents saying that they want things left the way they are now (from 22% in 2012 to 30% in 2015) and a decrease in the proportion saying they would like the Peace Wall to come down some time in the future (from 44% in 2012 to 35% in 2015).
Claim: More residents want peace walls to stay. (Ulster University, 2015-01-12)
Evidence (2022-01-05): More than 100 peace wall barriers remain in Northern Ireland [...] More than 100 peace wall barriers remain across Northern Ireland over two decades after the signing of the Belfast Agreement a leading fund has said. [...] "People living at this peace wall couldn’t use their front doors as they were opening on to a barrier. Now they are not only using the front of their homes but are getting new gardens and the whole area has been opened up and completely transformed."
Claim: More residents want peace walls to stay. (Ulster University, 2015-01-12)
Evidence (2019-11-12): An increasing number of people living alongside peace walls in Northern Ireland want to see them removed within the next generation, according to new research by the International Fund for Ireland (IFI). [...] The survey found that communities along peace walls continue to experience high levels of social and economic deprivation, and many believe their removal would have a positive impact on the health and wellbeing and employment and housing opportunities for residents. [...] There was, the report stated, "always concern that this issue will develop as gatherings often take place on the derelict land around interfaces" and the increase in anti-social behaviour had a negative impact on peace wall removal because it reinforced the view held by some residents that they provided security and protection.
Claim: More residents want peace walls to stay. (Ulster University, 2015-01-12)
Evidence (2023-04-05): In 2013, the Northern Ireland executive announced a plan to remove all peace walls by 2023. But a decade on, they are still standing. So, the question now is, how long will they remain? [...] Over 50 years on from their erection, violence is another reason why mixed feelings persist over the removal of peace walls. In April 2021, trouble flared at the Lanark Way gate, as loyalists protested the Northern Ireland Protocol and what they saw as the effective creation of a border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK. [...] In Bombay Street, some houses situated directly beside the peace wall have their gardens enclosed in steel cages. Mr Mac Maoláin and Sean Murray, who are both part of the local Clonard Residents Association, explain that although the days of the Troubles are long gone, these cages still serve a purpose.
Claim: More residents want peace walls to stay. (Ulster University, 2015-01-12)
Evidence (2022-01-05): More than 100 peace wall barriers remain across Northern Ireland more than two decades after the signing of the Belfast Agreement, a leading fund has said. [...] A high solid peace wall and fence was also removed from the Hillman Court/Duncairn Gardens area. DCP manager Harry Smyth said local residents were involved in the design of a new interface, which he described as a "complete transformation to a lovely green link fence which you wouldn't even know is a peace wall".