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Unearthing the divide: Historical development of socioeconomic inequalities in lifespan in Vorarlberg, Austria (1961 – 1981)
Mayer, S.; Oberndorfer, M.; Berger, M. · Das Gesundheitswesen · 2024 · Heft S 05 · S. 1 bis 1
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Objectives The historical relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and mortality is important for understanding the development of the health of populations in the long-term. However, administrative data to study the evolution of socioeconomic inequalities in lifespan prior to 1980ies do not exist in Austria. In line with a recent proof-of-concept study (Mayer et al. , 2023, SSM Popul Health), we utilize newspaper obituaries as an innovative data source to estimate the historical development of socioeconomic inequalities in lifespan. Methods We draw on a dataset of 4, 398 deceased, manually extracted from…
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