Citation

Acciai F, Firebaugh G. Prev. Med. 2019; 127: 105793.

Affiliation

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.ypmed.2019.105793

PMID

31398411

Abstract

The submitted manuscript is an original investigation of the U.S. mortality pattern from 2000 to 2017. Previous research has shown that the unusual post-2014 decline in life expectancy is related to the increase in death rates for ages 25-44, mostly due to rising prevalence in drug poisoning and suicide deaths. Our investigation reveals that such increase in younger-age mortality has had an impact not only on life expectancy (or mean age at death), but also, and to a larger extent, on lifespan variability (the dispersion around the mean age at death). Even though lifespan variability is a key component of mortality change, as well as a measure of human well-being, with social, economic, and psychological implications, it has received much less attention than life expectancy has.

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Language: en

Keywords

Inequality; Life expectancy; Lifespan variability; Mortality; United States