Estimation of smoking-related mortality and its contribution to educational inequalities in life expectancy in Spain: an observational study, 2016-2019.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate smoking-related mortality and its contribution to educational inequalities in life expectancy in Spain.

Design

Nationwide, observational study from 2016 to 2019. Population-attributable fractions were used to estimate age, sex and education-specific cause-of-death smoking-attributable mortality. Life table techniques and decomposition methods were used to estimate potential gains in life expectancy at age 35 and the cause-specific contributions of smoking-related mortality to life expectancy differences across educational groups.

Setting

Spain.

Participants

We use cause-specific mortality data from population registers and smoking prevalence from the National and the European Health Survey for Spain from 2017 and 2019/2020, respectively.

SUBMITTER: Pineiro B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9379492 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature