Changing educational gradient in long-term care-free life expectancy among German men, 1997-2012.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The inverse association between mortality and individual socioeconomic status is well-documented. Due to the lack of appropriate data, little is known about the nature of this association among individuals with long-term care (LTC) needs.

Objectives

We aim to fill in this knowledge gap by estimating life expectancy (LE), life expectancy without (CFLE) and with (CLE) long-term care by education for older German men; and by assessing the trends in the education-LE/CFLE/CLE gradient over time.

Data and methods

We apply survival analysis and Gompertz regression to German Socioeconomic Panel data (1997-2012) to estimate the mortality levels and to construct the life tables for three educational categories. Using the administrative data from the health insurance,

SUBMITTER: Grigoriev O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6752958 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature