Inequality in mortality by occupation related to economic crisis from 1980 to 2010 among working-age Japanese males.

ABSTRACT: The mortality rate for Japanese males aged 30-59 years in managerial and professional spiked in 2000 and remains worse than that of other occupations possibly associated with the economic downturn of the 1990s and the global economic stagnation after 2008. The present study aimed to assess temporal occupation-specific mortality trends from 1980 to 2010 for Japanese males aged 30-59 years for major causes of death. We obtained data from the Occupation-specific Vital Statistics. We calculated age-standardized mortality rates for the four leading causes of death (all cancers, suicide, ischaemic heart disease, and cerebrovascular disease). We used a generalized estimating equation model to determine specific effects of the economic downturn after 2000. The age-standardized mortality rate for t

SUBMITTER: Wada K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4776242 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature