Reassessing socioeconomic inequalities in mortality via distributional similarities.

ABSTRACT: Commonly used measures of socioeconomic inequalities in mortality, such as the slope and the relative index of inequality, are based on summary measures of the group-specific age-at-death distributions (e.g. standardized mortality rate or life expectancy). While this approach is informative, it ignores valuable information contained in the group-specific distributions. A recent approach applied a measure of distributional dissimilarity (the non-overlap index) to measure lifespan stratification. In this paper, we rigorously evaluate and further implement the multi-group extension of the non-overlap index ( S P ) to measure socioeconomic inequalities in mortality across a number of groups, and assess whether differences across countries and over time are driven by mortality or compositional

SUBMITTER: Gomez-Ugarte AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11847365 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature