Global Disparities in Premature Mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Persistent disparities in mortality across countries suggest uneven improvements in living standards and access to life-extending health technologies, as well as context-specific obstacles. Studies have analyzed cross-country inequality in mortality but have not widely contextualized those disparities in terms of developmental progress relative to a frontier representing a level of mortality achievable with broad access to the best health-enhancing technology and living standards available.

Objective

To examine probability of premature death (PPD)-defined as probability of dying before 70 years of age-across countries and regions, benchmarking progress as years behind the lowest country-level PPD (the frontier).

Design and setting

This cross-sectional study

SUBMITTER: Karlsson O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12495499 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature