Reassessing socioeconomic inequalities in mortality via distributional similarities

Abstract Commonly used measures of socioeconomic inequalities in mortality, such as the slope and the relative index of inequality, are based on summary measures of the group-specific age-at-death distributions (e.g. standardized mortality rate or life expectancy). While this approach is informative...

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Main Authors: Ana C. Gómez-Ugarte, Ugofilippo Basellini, Carlo G. Camarda, Fanny Janssen, Emilio Zagheni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2025-02-01
Series:Population Health Metrics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12963-025-00365-1
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