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The contribution of educational inequalities to lifespan variation
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- van Raalte, Alyson A. (author)
- Max Planck Inst Demog Res, Rostock, Germany,Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
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- Kunst, Anton E. (author)
- Univ Amsterdam, Acad MC, Dept Publ Hlth, Amsterdam, Netherlands,Department of Public Health, Academic MC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Lundberg, Olle (author)
- Mittuniversitetet,Stockholms universitet,Centrum för forskning om ojämlikhet i hälsa (CHESS),Institutionen för hälsovetenskap (-2013)
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- Leinsalu, Mall (author)
- Södertörns högskola,Sociologi,SCOHOST (Stockholm Centre on Health of Societies in Transition),Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The National Institute for Health Development, Tallinn, Estonia,Sodertorn Univ, Stockholm Ctr Hlth Soc Transit, Sodertorn, Sweden
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- Martikainen, Pekka (author)
- Univ Helsinki, Dept Sociol, Helsinki, Finland,Department of Sociology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Artnik, Barbara (author)
- Univ Ljubljana, Fac Med, Dept Publ Hlth, Ljubljana, Slovenia,Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Deboosere, Patrick (author)
- Vrije Univ Brussel, Dept Social Res, Brussels, Belgium,Department of Social Research, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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- Stirbu, Irina (author)
- Erasmus MC, Dept Publ Hlth, Rotterdam, Netherlands,Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- Wojtyniak, Bogdan (author)
- Natl Inst Hyg, Natl Inst Publ Hlth, Dept Monitoring & Anal Populat Hlth, PL-00791 Warsaw, Poland,Department of Monitoring and Analyses of Population Health, National Institute of Public Health-National Institute of Hygiene, Warsaw, Poland
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- Mackenbach, Johan P. (author)
- Erasmus MC, Dept Publ Hlth, Rotterdam, Netherlands,Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- 2012-02-16
- 2012
- English.
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In: Population Health Metrics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1478-7954. ; 10:3
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- BackgroundStudies of socioeconomic inequalities in mortality consistently point to higher death rates in lower socioeconomic groups. Yet how these between-group differences relate to the total variation in mortality risk between individuals is unknown.MethodsWe used data assembled and harmonized as part of the Eurothine project, which includes census-based mortality data from 11 European countries. We matched this to national data from the Human Mortality Database and constructed life tables by gender and educational level. We measured variation in age at death using Theil's entropy index, and decomposed this measure into its between- and within-group components.ResultsThe least-educated groups lived between three and 15 years fewer than the highest-educated groups, the latter having a more similar age at death in all countries. Differences between educational groups contributed between 0.6% and 2.7% to total variation in age at death between individuals in Western European countries and between 1.2% and 10.9% in Central and Eastern European countries. Variation in age at death is larger and differs more between countries among the least-educated groups.ConclusionsAt the individual level, many known and unknown factors are causing enormous variation in age at death, socioeconomic position being only one of them. Reducing variations in age at death among less-educated people by providing protection to the vulnerable may help to reduce inequalities in mortality between socioeconomic groups.
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- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology (hsv//eng)
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- Lifespan variation; Life expectancy; Socioeconomic inequality; Education; International variation; Mortality
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