@article{ref1,
title="A cause-of-death decomposition of young adult excess mortality",
journal="Demography",
year="2018",
author="Remund, Adrien and Camarda, Carlo G. and Riffe, Tim",
volume="55",
number="3",
pages="957-978",
abstract="We propose a method to decompose the young adult mortality hump by cause of death. This method is based on a flexible shape decomposition of mortality rates that separates cause-of-death contributions to the hump from senescent mortality. We apply the method to U.S. males and females from 1959 to 2015. <br><br>RESULTS show divergence between time trends of hump and observed deaths, both for all-cause and cause-specific mortality. The study of the hump shape reveals age, period, and cohort effects, suggesting that it is formed by a complex combination of different forces of biological and socioeconomic nature. Male and female humps share some traits in all-cause shape and trend, but they also differ by their overall magnitude and cause-specific contributions. Notably, among males, the contributions of traffic and other accidents were progressively replaced by those of suicides, homicides, and poisonings; among females, traffic accidents remained the major contributor to the hump.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0070-3370",
doi="10.1007/s13524-018-0680-9",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0680-9"
}