Panorama

Dead Poor (1995x5)

Air date: Feb 13, 1995

Average life expectancy in England is 73 fora man and 79 fora woman - but not if you are poor. Panorama looks at new evidence that death rates among Britain's poor are rising for the first time in decades. The rich are now living longer and the poor dying younger, and in some cases that gap has widened by as much as 45 percent during the 80s.