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This gender gap in LE (GGLE) has been explained with biological factors, healthy behaviours, health status, and sociodemographic characteristics, but little attention has been paid to the role of public health policies that include\/affect these factors. This study aimed to assess the contributions of avoidable causes of death, as a measure of public health policies and healthcare quality impacts, to the GGLE and its temporal changes in the UK. We also estimated the contributions of avoidable causes of death into the gap in LE between countries in the UK.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>We obtained annual data on underlying causes of death by age and sex from the World Health Organization mortality database for the periods 2001\u20132003 and 2014\u20132016. We calculated LE at birth using abridged life tables. We applied Arriaga\u2019s decomposition method to compute the age- and cause-specific contributions into the GGLE in each period and its changes between two periods as well as the cross-country gap in LE in the 2014\u20132016 period.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Avoidable causes had greater contributions than non-avoidable causes to the GGLE in both periods (62% in 2001\u20132003 and 54% in 2014\u20132016) in the UK. Among avoidable causes, ischaemic heart disease (IHD) followed by injuries had the greatest contributions to the GGLE in both periods. On average, the GGLE across the UK narrowed by about 1.0\u00a0year  between 2001\u20132003 and 2014\u20132016 and three avoidable causes of IHD, lung cancer, and injuries accounted for about 0.8\u00a0years of this reduction. England &amp; Wales had the greatest LE for both sexes in 2014\u20132016. 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