Lifespan Inequalities: Why the age-at-death distribution varies between countries and socioeconomic groups

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (14)

The case for monitoring life-span inequality

Author(s): Alyson A. van Raalte, Isaac Sasson, Pekka Martikainen
Published in: Science, Issue 362/6418, 2018, Page(s) 1002-1004, ISSN 0036-8075
DOI: 10.1126/science.aau5811

Potential gains in life expectancy by reducing inequality of lifespans in Denmark: an international comparison and cause-of-death analysis

Author(s): José Manuel Aburto, Maarten Wensink, Alyson van Raalte, Rune Lindahl-Jacobsen
Published in: BMC Public Health, Issue 18/1, 2018, ISSN 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-018-5730-0

Lifespan Dispersion in Times of Life Expectancy Fluctuation: The Case of Central and Eastern Europe

Author(s): José Manuel Aburto, Alyson van Raalte
Published in: Demography, Issue 55/6, 2018, Page(s) 2071-2096, ISSN 0070-3370
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-018-0729-9

Upsurge of Homicides and Its Impact on Life Expectancy and Life Span Inequality in Mexico, 2005–2015

Author(s): José Manuel Aburto, Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez
Published in: American Journal of Public Health, Issue https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304878, 2019, Page(s) e1-e7, ISSN 0090-0036
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2018.304878

Changing contribution of area-level deprivation to total variance in age at death: a population-based decomposition analysis

Author(s): Rosie Seaman, Tim Riffe, Hal Caswell
Published in: BMJ Open, Issue 9/3, 2019, Page(s) e024952, ISSN 2044-6055
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024952

The increasing lifespan variation gradient by area-level deprivation: A decomposition analysis of Scotland 1981–2011

Author(s): Rosie Seaman, Tim Riffe, Alastair H. Leyland, Frank Popham, Alyson van Raalte
Published in: Social Science & Medicine, Issue 230, 2019, Page(s) 147-157, ISSN 0277-9536
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.04.008

Determinants of Influenza Mortality Trends: Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Influenza Mortality in the United States, 1959–2016

Author(s): Enrique Acosta, Stacey A. Hallman, Lisa Y. Dillon, Nadine Ouellette, Robert Bourbeau, D. Ann Herring, Kris Inwood, David J. D. Earn, Joaquin Madrenas, Matthew S. Miller, Alain Gagnon
Published in: Demography, Issue 56/5, 2019, Page(s) 1723-1746, ISSN 0070-3370
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-019-00809-y

Latin American convergence and divergence towards the mortality profiles of developed countries

Author(s): Jesús-Adrián Alvarez, José Manuel Aburto, Vladimir Canudas-Romo
Published in: Population Studies, Issue 74/1, 2020, Page(s) 75-92, ISSN 0032-4728
DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2019.1614651

The impact of violence on Venezuelan life expectancy and lifespan inequality

Author(s): Jenny García, José Manuel Aburto
Published in: International Journal of Epidemiology, Issue 48/5, 2019, Page(s) 1593-1601, ISSN 0300-5771
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyz072

APC curvature plots: Displaying nonlinear age-period-cohort patterns on Lexis plots

Author(s): Enrique Acosta, Alyson van Raalte
Published in: Demographic Research, Issue 41, 2019, Page(s) 1205-1234, ISSN 1435-9871
DOI: 10.4054/demres.2019.41.42

Declining regional disparities in mortality in the context of persisting large inequalities in economic conditions: the case of Germany

Author(s): Alyson A van Raalte, Sebastian Klüsener, Anna Oksuzyan, Pavel Grigoriev
Published in: International Journal of Epidemiology, 2020, ISSN 0300-5771
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyz265

Age-specific incidence of influenza A responds to change in virus subtype dominance

Author(s): Alain Gagnon, Enrique Acosta, Matthew S Miller
Published in: Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2020, ISSN 1058-4838
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa075

Dynamics of life expectancy and life span equality

Author(s): José Manuel Aburto, Francisco Villavicencio, Ugofilippo Basellini, Søren Kjærgaard, James W. Vaupel
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020, Page(s) 201915884, ISSN 0027-8424
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1915884117

Assessing the quality of education reporting in Brazilian censuses

Author(s): Marília Nepomuceno, Cássio Turra
Published in: Demographic Research, Issue 42, 2020, Page(s) 441-460, ISSN 1435-9871
DOI: 10.4054/demres.2020.42.15

Book chapters (2)

The Social Determinants of Life Expectancy and Inequality in Lifespan

Author(s): Alyson A. van Raalte, Rosie Seaman
Published in: Reference Module in Biomedical Sciences, 2019
DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-801238-3.11296-6

Ungleichheiten im Sterbealter als demografisches Maß: Was ist das und warum ist es so wichtig?

Author(s): Alyson A. van Raalte
Published in: Jahrbuch der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, 2018
DOI: 10.17617/1.7h

Thesis dissertations (2)

Age, period, and cohort effects on adult mortality due to extrinsic causes of death

Author(s): Enrique Acosta
Published in: 2019

On the relationship between life expectancy and lifespan equality

Author(s): José Manuel Aburto
Published in: 2020

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Comparaison de survie de cohortes entre les pays d’Europe centrale et orientale et les pays à longévité élevée

Author(s): Marília R. Nepomuceno, Vladimir Canudas-Romo
Published in: Population, Issue 74/3, 2019, Page(s) 299, ISSN 0032-4663
DOI: 10.3917/popu.1903.0299

Other (1)

Monitoring trends and differences in COVID-19 case fatality rates using decomposition methods: Contributions of age structure and age-specific fatality

Author(s): Christian Dudel, Tim Riffe, Enrique Acosta, Alyson van Raalte, Mikko Myrskyla
Published in: medRxiv preprint, 2020
DOI: 10.1101/2020.03.31.20048397