Project description DEENESFRITPL A closer look at lifespan inequality around the world People are living longer and ages at death are becoming more similar, suggesting lifespan inequality may be falling. The EU-funded UnequaLives project will investigate how age-specific patterns of mortality drive changes in life expectancy and lifespan inequality. It will apply these methods to analyse recent patterns of life expectancy and lifespan inequality in low-mortality countries, including Europe. The project will also expand terms of discourse about the effects of violence on population health by analysing a neglected perspective, namely lifespan inequality in contexts of high violence by gender. The project will use data from open-access databases, including the Human Mortality Database, the Global Burden of Disease and the Global Peace Index. The findings will have important implications for policies and how to evaluate global population health. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective Most countries experienced major increases in life expectancy in the second half of the 20th century. This progress has meant that people are living longer on average and, at the same time, ages at death have become compressed to a narrow band of ages within populations. In other words, ages at death have become more similar, or lifespan inequality has decreased as populations live longer. The research I propose is driven by three major objectives: 1) Pioneer a powerful, theory-based methodology to analyze how age-specific patterns of mortality drive changes in life expectancy and lifespan inequality (variation in age at death), 2) Apply these methods to analyze recent patterns of life expectancy and lifespan inequality in low mortality countries, including Europe, and 3) Expand terms of discourse about the effects of violence on population health by analyzing a neglected perspective, namely lifespan inequality in contexts of high violence by sex. The data used in this project come from open-access databases, including the Human Mortality Database, the Global Burden of Disease, and the Global Peace Index. This project is timely because recent trends in several countries indicate that continued improvements in longevity are not inevitable, with stalls in life expectancy occurring in some low mortality countries, such as the UK and USA, and increasing premature mortality resulting from violence in contexts such as Latin America and Middle East. These recent dynamics indicate increasing complexity underpinning population health improvements and highlight the need to analyze population health through the lens of lifespan inequality. This has significant implications for policy, as it reveals emerging forms of inequalities that highlight the importance of adopting inequality-based metrics for evaluating population health around the globe. Fields of science social sciencessociologydemographymortalitynatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabases Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility Topic(s) MSCA-IF-2019 - Individual Fellowships Call for proposal H2020-MSCA-IF-2019 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF) Coordinator THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Net EU contribution € 224 933,76 Address Wellington square university offices OX1 2JD Oxford United Kingdom See on map Region South East (England) Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Oxfordshire Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00
