100% and that is why many of the best long term health studies focus on the overall burden of disease by assessing the disability-adjusted life year (DALY). Mortality alone is virtually useless. Unless you have agendas to prosecute.
DALY combines years of life lost due to premature mortality (YLLs) and years of life lost due to time lived in states of less than full health, or years of healthy life lost due to disability (YLDs).
A much clearer picture of the burden of disease emerges then.
