Is life expectancy really falling for groups of low socio-economic status? Lagged selection bias and artefactual trends in mortality.
Recent public health studies made headlines,1–3 reporting that for some subpopulations in the USA, mortality rates have been higher and life expectancies lower for recent compared with earlier time periods.4–7 These patterns have been described in both popular and academic discourse as a ‘rise’ in m...
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Oxford University Press
2014
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