Increasing inequality in age of death at shared levels of life expectancy: A comparative study of Scotland and England and Wales

There is a strong negative correlation between increasing life expectancy and decreasing lifespan variation, a measure of inequality. Previous research suggests that countries achieving a high level of life expectancy later in time generally do so with lower lifespan variation than forerunner countr...

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Main Authors: Rosie Seaman, Alastair H. Leyland, Frank Popham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-12-01
Series:SSM: Population Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235282731630101X