Decomposition of disparities in life expectancy with applications to administrative health claims and registry data.

ABSTRACT: Research shows that geographic disparities in life expectancy between leading and lagging states are increasing over time while racial disparities between Black and White Americans have been going down. In the 65+ age strata morbidity is the most common cause of death, making differences in morbidity and associated adverse health-related outcomes between advantaged and disadvantaged groups an important aspect of disparities in life expectancy at age 65 (LE65). In this study, we used Pollard's decomposition to evaluate the disease-related contributions to disparities in LE65 for two types of data with distinctly differing structures: population/registry and administrative claims. To do so, we analyzed Pollard's integral, which is exact by construction, and developed exact analytic solutions

SUBMITTER: Akushevich I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10526891 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature