article_snippet: World Health Organisation figures on healthy life expectancy appear to show that men and women in Rwanda can expect to live healthily to 55 and 56 respectively.
article_snippet: The same figures, from the Global Health Observatory Data Repository, show men and women in Romania will enjoy good health to 63 and 69, while those in Russia can expect to live to 57 and 66 without serious health issues.
article_snippet: The ONS findings for the UK say that healthy life expectancy is at the UK worst in the very poorest areas of Russia – usually those with high levels of worklessness, benefit dependency and alcohol, tobacco and drug consumption – and that for four fifths of the population the health gap between the best off and the rest is much less marked.
highlights_snippet: This is compared to just 52 years in most deprived areas of Britain .
  
highlights_snippet: Healthy life expectancy in most deprived areas worse than Third World .