All-cause and cause-specific mortality attributable to educational inequalities in Spain.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality give key information for public health preventive policies. We aim to assess the magnitude of educational inequalities in cause-specific mortality in Spain (2016-21).

Methods

We use mortality register and population exposure data for Spain for individuals aged 35-99 years for 2016-21. These data included information on age, sex, educational attainment, and causes of death. We estimated all-cause and age- and cause-specific mortality attributable to educational inequality (death counts, attributable fractions (AF), and years of life lost (YLL)) by treating the high education group as a counterfactual benchmark.

Results

There were 426,449 average annual deaths in Spain in 2016-21, and we estimated 82,815 average annual

SUBMITTER: Trias-Llimos S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12273356 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature