Autori
Zarulli, Virginia
Feraldi, Alessandro

Titolo
Patterns in age and cause of death contribution to the sex gap in life expectancy: a comparison among ten countries
Periodico
Genus
Anno: 2022 - Volume: 78 - Fascicolo: 23 - Pagina iniziale: 1 - Pagina finale: 22

Women live longer than men and the absolute difference between male and female mortality risk reaches its maximum at old ages. We decomposed the sex gap in life expectancy and investigated the changes over time of the profile of the age–cause specific contributions with indicators of location, magnitude and dispersion in ten countries. Data were retrieved from the Human Cause-of-Death Database. The decom- position analyses revealed that neoplasm, heart diseases and external causes were the main drivers of the gender gap. We also find two main patterns in the development of age-specific contributions. With mortality delay, regarding neoplasm-related mortal- ity and heart disease-related mortality, the shift (i.e., movement of the modal age at contribution towards older ages) and compression (i.e., dispersion concentrated on a shorter age interval) of the survival advantage of women over a narrower age range reveal that men are gradually improving their survival. This might be linked to improve- ments in survival, diagnosis and access to treatment, at least to those ages no longer affected by the most significant differences.



SICI: 0016-6987(2022)78:23<1:PIAACO>2.0.ZU;2-W
Testo completo: https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-022-00171-9

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