Patterns in age and cause of death contribution to the sex gap in life expectancy: a comparison among ten countries
Abstract Women live longer than men and the absolute difference between male and female mortality risk reaches its maximum at old ages. We decomposed the sex gap in life expectancy and investigated the changes over time of the profile of the age–cause specific contributions with indicators of locati...
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| Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2022-08-01
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-022-00171-9 |