Why we should monitor disparities in old-age mortality with the modal age at death.

Indicators based a fixed "old" age threshold have been widely used for assessing socioeconomic disparities in mortality at older ages. Interpretation of long-term trends and determinants of these indicators is challenging because mortality above a fixed age that in the past would have refl...

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Main Authors: Viorela Diaconu, Alyson van Raalte, Pekka Martikainen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263626