Looking for an explanation for the excessive male mortality in England and Wales since the end of the 19th century.

ABSTRACT: Several papers have primarily considered a female disadvantage in mortality as something to explain, considering a male disadvantage to be a "natural condition". Even if, due to biological reasons, shorter life expectancy among males has been demonstrated, other factors need to be involved to explain firstly the increasing, and then the decreasing, of the male relative disadvantage over the past century. The principal aim of this paper is to provide a clearer picture of the major age-class and cause-of-death contributions to male excess mortality in England and Wales from 1881 to 2011. Results indicate a clear shift in contributions to the male disadvantage from differences occurring during the first year of life to those occurring in ageing people, and from tuberculosis, respiratory disea

SUBMITTER: Maiolo V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7178544 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature