Intraurban socioeconomic inequalities in life expectancy: a population-based cross-sectional analysis in the city of Cordoba, Argentina (2015–2018)

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate variability in life expectancy at birth in small areas, describe the spatial pattern of life expectancy, and examine associations between small-area socioeconomic characteristics and life expectancy in a mid-sized city of a middle-income country.

Design

Cross-sectional, using data from death registries (2015–2018) and socioeconomic characteristics data from the 2010 national population census.

Participants/setting

40 898 death records in 99 small areas of the city of Córdoba, Argentina. We summarised variability in life expectancy at birth by using the difference between the 90th and 10th percentile of the distribution of life expectancy across small areas (P90-P10 gap) and evaluated associations with small-area socioeconomic characteristic

SUBMITTER: Rodriguez Lopez S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9442478 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature