TY - JOUR
T1 - Cause-of-death contributions to educational inequalities in mortality in Austria between 1981/1982 and 1991/1992
AU - Rau, Roland
AU - Doblhammer, Gabriele
AU - Canudas-Romo, Vladimir
AU - Zhen, Zhang
PY - 2008/9
Y1 - 2008/9
N2 - This article uses census records and deaths records to analyze trends in educational inequalities in mortality for Austrian women and men aged 35-64 years between 1981/1982 and 1991/1992. We find an increasing gradient in mortality by education for circulatory diseases and especially ischaemic heart disease. Respiratory diseases and, in addition for women, cancers showed the opposite trend. Using decomposition analysis, we give evidence that in many cases changes in the age-structure within the 10-year interval had a bigger effect than direct improvements in mortality on the analyzed subpopulations.
AB - This article uses census records and deaths records to analyze trends in educational inequalities in mortality for Austrian women and men aged 35-64 years between 1981/1982 and 1991/1992. We find an increasing gradient in mortality by education for circulatory diseases and especially ischaemic heart disease. Respiratory diseases and, in addition for women, cancers showed the opposite trend. Using decomposition analysis, we give evidence that in many cases changes in the age-structure within the 10-year interval had a bigger effect than direct improvements in mortality on the analyzed subpopulations.
KW - Austria
KW - Causes of death
KW - Decomposition analysis
KW - Education
KW - Mortality
KW - Socioeconomic factors
KW - Trends
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U2 - 10.1007/s10680-007-9145-3
DO - 10.1007/s10680-007-9145-3
M3 - Article
C2 - 19816539
AN - SCOPUS:48449092784
SN - 0168-6577
VL - 24
SP - 265
EP - 286
JO - European Journal of Population
JF - European Journal of Population
IS - 3
ER -