Changes in life expectancy and lifespan variability by income quartiles in four Nordic countries: a study based on nationwide register data.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Levels, trends or changes in socioeconomic mortality differentials are typically described in terms of means, for example, life expectancies, but studies have suggested that there also are systematic social disparities in the dispersion around those means, in other words there are inequalities in lifespan variation. This study investigates changes in income inequalities in mean and distributional measures of mortality in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden over two decades.

Design

Nationwide register-based study.

Setting

The Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish populations aged 30 years or over in 1997 and 2017.

Main outcome measures

Income-specific changes in life expectancy, lifespan variation and the contribution of 'early' and 'late' deaths to

SUBMITTER: Bronnum-Hansen H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8245444 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature