Recent adverse mortality trends in Scotland: comparison with other high-income countries
Recent adverse mortality trends in Scotland: comparison with other high-income countries
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DOI:
10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029936
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发表时间:
2019-10-01
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
McCartney, Gerry
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作者:
Fenton, Lynda;Minton, Jon;McCartney, Gerry
Objective Gains in life expectancy have faltered in several high-income countries in recent years. Scotland has consistently had a lower life expectancy than many other high-income countries over the past 70 years. We aim to compare life expectancy trends in Scotland to those seen internationally and to assess the timing and importance of any recent changes in mortality trends for Scotland.Setting Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England and Wales, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Poland, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and USA.Methods We used life expectancy data from the Human Mortality Database (HMD) to calculate the mean annual life expectancy change for 24 high-income countries over 5-year periods from 1992 to 2016. Linear regression was used to assess the association between life expectancy in 2011 and mean life expectancy change over the subsequent 5 years. One-break and two-break segmented regression models were used to test the timing of mortality rate changes in Scotland between 1990 and 2018.Results Mean improvements in life expectancy in 2012-2016 were smallest among women (