Changes in cause-specific mortality trends across occupations in working-age Japanese women from 1980 to 2015: a cross-sectional analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Reducing health inequalities is an important public health challenge. Many studies have examined the widening health gap by occupational class among men, but few among women. We therefore estimated variation in absolute and relative mortality by occupational category across four leading causes of mortality-cancer, ischaemic heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, and suicide-to explore how occupational class is associated with health among working women aged 25-64 in Japan.

Methods

We conducted a repeated cross-sectional study using Poisson regression analysis on each five-yearly mortality data from 1980 to 2015, obtained from the National Vital Statistics and the Japanese Population Census.

Results

There was a decreasing trend in mortality from all cancers

SUBMITTER: Dhungel B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8861597 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature