Social policies and change in education-related disparities in mortality in Japan, 2000-2010.

ABSTRACT: Persistent socioeconomic disparity in mortality is a widely observed phenomenon despite improvements in the economic standard of living and the prevailing universal healthcare coverage policy. In this study, we selected Japan as a case in which public universal coverage has maintained horizontal equity in healthcare access while demographic and economic challenges have affected the life chances of vulnerable subpopulations over the past decade. We assessed the changing trends in the education-related disparity in mortality over a decade across demographic subpopulations for different causes of death, with the goal of generating social policy lessons to contribute to closing the mortality gap. Using a deterministic data merge between nationwide census and death records, we estimated age- an

SUBMITTER: Kasajima M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7672318 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature