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

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (25)

Rethinking morbidity compression

Author(s): Rosie Seaman, Andreas Höhn, Rune Lindahl-Jacobsen, Pekka Martikainen, Alyson van Raalte, Kaare Christensen
Published in: European Journal of Epidemiology, 35/5, 2020, Page(s) 381-388, ISSN 0393-2990
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10654-020-00642-3

What have we learned about mortality patterns over the past 25 years?

Author(s): Alyson A. van Raalte
Published in: Population Studies, 1, 2021, ISSN 0032-4728
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2021.1967430

The Population of Centenarians in Brazil: Historical Estimates from 1900 to 2000

Author(s): Marília R. Nepomuceno, Cássio M. Turra
Published in: Population and Development Review, 2020, ISSN 0098-7921
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/padr.12355

The impact of income definitions on mortality inequalities

Author(s): Jiaxin Shi, Lasse Tarkiainen, Pekka Martikainen, Alyson van Raalte
Published in: SSM - Population Health, 2021, ISSN 2352-8273
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100915

Besides population age structure, health and other demographic factors can contribute to understanding the COVID-19 burden

Author(s): Marília R. Nepomuceno, Enrique Acosta, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, José Manuel Aburto, Alain Gagnon, Cássio M. Turra
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117/25, 2020, Page(s) 13881-13883, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2008760117

Diversification in causes of death in low-mortality countries: emerging patterns and implications

Author(s): Marie-Pier Bergeron-Boucher, José Manuel Aburto, Alyson van Raalte
Published in: BMJ Global Health, 5/7, 2020, Page(s) e002414, ISSN 2059-7908
Publisher: BMJ
DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002414

Data Resource Profile: COVerAGE-DB: a global demographic database of COVID-19 cases and deaths

Author(s): Riffe, Tim; Acosta, Enrique; Aburto, José Manuel; Alburez-Gutierrez, Diego; Altová, Anna; Alustiza, Ainhoa; Basellini, Ugofilippo; Bignami, Simona; Breton, Didier; Choi, Eungang; Cimentada, Jorge; De Armas, Gonzalo; Del Fava, Emanuele; Delgado, Alicia; Diaconu, Viorela; Donzowa, Jessica; Dudel, Christian; Fröhlich, Antonia; Gagnon, Alain; Garcia-Crisóstomo, Mariana; Garcia-Guerrero, Victor M.;
Published in: International Journal of Epidemiology, 2021, ISSN 0300-5771
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyab027

Why we should monitor disparities in old-age mortality with the modal age at death

Author(s): Viorela Diaconu
Published in: PLOS ONE, 2022, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0263626

The case for monitoring life-span inequality

Author(s): Alyson A. van Raalte, Isaac Sasson, Pekka Martikainen
Published in: Science, 362/6418, 2018, Page(s) 1002-1004, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
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, 18/1, 2018, ISSN 1471-2458
Publisher: BioMed Central
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, 55/6, 2018, Page(s) 2071-2096, ISSN 0070-3370
Publisher: Population Association of America
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, https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304878, 2019, Page(s) e1-e7, ISSN 0090-0036
Publisher: American Public Health Association
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, 9/3, 2019, Page(s) e024952, ISSN 2044-6055
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
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, 230, 2019, Page(s) 147-157, ISSN 0277-9536
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
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, 56/5, 2019, Page(s) 1723-1746, ISSN 0070-3370
Publisher: Population Association of America
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, 74/1, 2020, Page(s) 75-92, ISSN 0032-4728
Publisher: Routledge
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, 48/5, 2019, Page(s) 1593-1601, ISSN 0300-5771
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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, 41, 2019, Page(s) 1205-1234, ISSN 1435-9871
Publisher: Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research/Max-Planck-institut fur Demografische Forschung
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
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1915884117

Assessing the quality of education reporting in Brazilian censuses

Author(s): Marília Nepomuceno, Cássio Turra
Published in: Demographic Research, 42, 2020, Page(s) 441-460, ISSN 1435-9871
Publisher: Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research/Max-Planck-institut fur Demografische Forschung
DOI: 10.4054/demres.2020.42.15

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, Cosmo Strozza, Mikko Myrskylä
Published in: PLOS ONE, 15/9, 2020, Page(s) e0238904, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0238904

Normalized lifespan inequality: disentangling the longevity–lifespan variability nexus

Author(s): Inaki Permanyer, Jiaxin Shi
Published in: Genus, 2022, ISSN 2035-5556
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1186/s41118-021-00150-6

The Cross-sectional Average Inequality in Lifespan (CAL†): A Lifespan Variation Measure That Reflects the Mortality Histories of Cohorts

Author(s): Marília R. Nepomuceno, Qi Cui, Alyson van Raalte, José Manuel Aburto, Vladimir Canudas-Romo
Published in: Demography, 2022, ISSN 0070-3370
Publisher: Population Association of America
DOI: 10.1215/00703370-9637380

Non-peer reviewed articles (2)

Long live humankind

Author(s): Alyson van Raalte
Published in: Science, 2021, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.abi4718

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, 74/3, 2019, Page(s) 299, ISSN 0032-4663
Publisher: Institut National D Etudes Demographiques
DOI: 10.3917/popu.1903.0299

Book chapters (3)

How an analysis of lifespan inequality can contribute to our understanding of life course inequalities

Author(s): Alyson van Raalte
Published in: The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Inequalities and the Life Course, 2021
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9780429470059-13

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, ISBN 9780-128012383
Publisher: Elsevier
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
Publisher: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
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
Publisher: Universite de Montreal

On the relationship between life expectancy and lifespan equality

Author(s): José Manuel Aburto
Published in: 2020
Publisher: University of Southern Denmark (SDU)