Area-based social inequalities in adult mortality: construction of French deprivation-specific life tables for the period 2016-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In order to tackle social inequalities in mortality, it is crucial to quantify them. We produced French deprivation-specific life tables for the period 2016-2018 to measure the social gradient in adult all-cause mortality.

Methods

Data from the Permanent Demographic Sample (EDP) were used to provide population and death counts by age, sex and deprivation quintile. The European Deprivation Index (EDI), applied at a sub-municipal geographical level, was used as an ecological measure of deprivation. Smoothed mortality rates were calculated using a one-dimensional Poisson counts smoothing method with P-Splines. We calculated life expectancies by age, sex and deprivation quintile as well as interquartile mortality rate ratios (MRR).

Results

At the age of 30, the

SUBMITTER: Merville O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10762790 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature