Summary The Nordic countries, including Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden
have seen a steep decline in cardiovascular mortality in recent decades. They are among …

Ageing outcomes are shaped by not only health conditions, but also their interactions with
the external environment. While the effects of some specific neighbourhood characteristics …

The conventional approach to gauging mortality convergence in Europe relies on life
expectancy estimates (e 0 e^0) at the national level. However, mortality can differ within …

State-level disparities in life expectancy are wide, persistent, and potentially growing in the
United States. However, the extent to which differences in lifespan variability by state have …

Ожидаемая продолжительность жизни при рождении используется как комплексный
индикатор состояния здоровья населения и социально-экономического развития …

Background Male excess mortality is mostly related to non-biological factors, and is thus of
high social-and health-policy concern. Previous research has mainly focused on national …

Research on mortality inequalities has proliferated in demography in recent decades,
documenting disparities between nations and within them across multiple social …

Background The capacity for health comparisons, including the accurate comparison of
indicators, is necessary for a comprehensive evaluation of well-being in places where …

Two important sources of inequality in mortality are regional variation and individuals'
socioeconomic status. While many studies have investigated the effect that each of these …

Health inequalities—systematic differences in health outcomes between social groups and
across spatial units—are ubiquitous, but not necessarily inevitable. They are the product of a …