Recent adverse mortality trends in Scotland: comparison with other high-income countries.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Gains in life expectancy have faltered in several high-income countries in recent years. Scotland has consistently had a lower life expectancy than many other high-income countries over the past 70 years. We aim to compare life expectancy trends in Scotland to those seen internationally and to assess the timing and importance of any recent changes in mortality trends for Scotland.

Setting

Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England and Wales, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Poland, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and USA.

Methods

We used life expectancy data from the Human Mortality Database (HMD) to calculate the mean annual life expectancy change for 2

SUBMITTER: Fenton L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6830653 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature