Slowdown in Mortality Improvement in the Past Decade: A US/UK Comparison.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate the slowdown in mortality improvement in the United States, United Kingdom, and comparator countries observed in the first decade of the twenty-first century and critically evaluate proposed explanations.

Methods

Change-point analysis to identify the year of change in comparison of national mortality trends and linear spline models in the investigation of subnational differences using data from the Human Mortality Database, Global Burden of Disease cause-specific data, and, for the United Kingdom, national statistics data. Consideration of the impact of using different methods to estimate overall mortality is also concluded together with a review of methodological assumptions made in previous studies.

Results

The results confirm the slowdown

SUBMITTER: Murphy MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9154273 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature