Heart attack and cancer survival rates leap as Britons live longer
Britons live longer as heart attack and cancer survival rates leap
Heart attack and cancer survival rates leap as Britons live longer
Britons live longer as heart attack and cancer survival rates leap
More to the point, perhaps, the article beneath the headline makes not a single reference to survival rates. So the problem isn’t that the headline is the wrong way round, it’s that it’s bollocks.
They might as well say that strong winds are caused by all those trees waving their branches about….
Wrong way around for logical reasons, but the right way around for journalistic reasons. “Heart attacks” grabs attention.