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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Main Authors: Aburto, JM, Kristensen, FF, Sharp, P
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Elsevier 2020