Disparities in premature mortality: evidence for the OECD countries

Ledesma-Cuenca, Ana (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Montañés, Antonio (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Simón-Fernández, María Blanca (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: This paper studies the existence of international health outcome disparities. We focus on the use of the potential years of life lost for a database that includes information from 33 OECD countries and covers the period 1990–2017. The methodology proposed by Phillips and Sul (2007) allows us to reject the existence of a single pattern of behaviour between countries for both males and females, suggesting the existence of severe health outcome inequalities. This methodology estimates the existence of four convergence clubs whose composition slightly varies when comparing the male and female cases. Some socioeconomic factors are found to be very important in explaining the forces that may drive the creation of these convergence clubs. In particular, the evolution of the economy and health policies are pivotal to understanding the creation of these estimated convergence clubs. Additionally, our results offer evidence in favor of the importance of environmental policies to explain these health outcome differences.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115198

Año: 2022

Publicado en: SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE 307 (2022), 115198 [10 pp.]
ISSN: 0277-9536

Factor impacto JCR: 5.4 (2022)

Categ. JCR: PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH rank: 41 / 207 = 0.198 (2022) - Q1 - T1
Categ. JCR: SOCIAL SCIENCES, BIOMEDICAL rank: 2 / 45 = 0.044 (2022) - Q1 - T1
Categ. JCR: PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH rank: 23 / 180 = 0.128 (2022) - Q1 - T1

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 7.9 - Arts and Humanities (Q1) - Social Sciences (Q1)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 1.978 - Health (social science) (Q1) - Medicine (miscellaneous) (Q1) - History and Philosophy of Science (Q1)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/AEI/PID2020-113229RB-C44

Tipo y forma: Artículo (PostPrint)

Área (Departamento): Área Economía Aplicada (Dpto. Economía Aplicada)
Área (Departamento): Área Fund. Análisis Económico (Dpto. Análisis Económico)