Lifespan Variation by Occupational Class: Compression or Stagnation Over Time?
Cross-sectional analyses of adult lifespan variation have found an inverse association between socioeconomic position and lifespan variation, but the trends by social class are unknown. We investigated trends in lifespan variation over four decades (1971-2010) by occupational social class (manual, l...
| Publicado en: | Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 73 - 96 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=94317240&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 94317240 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00703370 DEM jtl: Demography (Springer Nature) issn: 00703370 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Feb2014 vid: 51 iid: 1 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 94317240 10.1007/s13524-013-0253-x ppf: 73 ppct: 23 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 1.1MB tig: atl: Lifespan Variation by Occupational Class: Compression or Stagnation Over Time? aug: au: van Raalte, Alyson Martikainen, Pekka Myrskylä, Mikko affil: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock Germany Population Research Unit, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Helsinki Finland Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, London UK su: Mortality Social classes Life expectancy Longevity Socioeconomic factors Cardiovascular diseases sug: subj: Mortality Social classes Life expectancy Longevity Socioeconomic factors Cardiovascular diseases keyword: Life disparity Lifespan variation Mortality compression Socioeconomic inequality Life disparity Lifespan variation Mortality compression Socioeconomic inequality ab: Cross-sectional analyses of adult lifespan variation have found an inverse association between socioeconomic position and lifespan variation, but the trends by social class are unknown. We investigated trends in lifespan variation over four decades (1971-2010) by occupational social class (manual, lower nonmanual, upper nonmanual, other) using Finnish register data. We performed age and cause-of-death decompositions of lifespan variation for each sex (a) by occupational class over time and (b) between occupational classes at a shared level of life expectancy. Although life expectancy increased in all classes, lifespan variation was stable among manual workers and decreased only among nonmanual classes. These differences were caused by early-adult mortality: older-age lifespan variation declined for all the classes, but variation in early-adult mortality increased for all classes except the highest. The manual class's high and stagnant lifespan variation was driven by declines in circulatory diseases that were equally spread over early mortality-compressing and older mortality-expanding ages, as well as by high early-adult mortality from external causes. Results were similar for men and women. The results of this study, which is the first to document trends in lifespan variation by social class, suggest that mortality compression is compatible with increasing life expectancy but currently achieved only by higher occupational classes. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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