Black-white disparities during an epidemic: life expectancy and lifespan disparity in the US, 1980–2000
Covid-19 has demonstrated again that epidemics can affect minorities more than the population in general. We consider one of the last major epidemics in the United States: HIV/AIDS from ca. 1980–2000. We calculate life expectancy and lifespan disparity (a measure of variance in age at death) for thi...
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Elsevier
2020
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