Marc Luy
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 263326 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Marc Luy |
| PRENOMES | Marc |
| SOBRENOME | Luy |
| ASSINATURA | LUY M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9282-6472 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Health Expectancy
Good health is central to human happiness and well-being. It contributes substantially to economic progress, as healthy populations live longer and are more productive. The corresponding public health policies are typically assessed based on a structural indicator for "Health Expectancy" (HE) such as the EU's "Healthy Life Years" (HLY) or the WHO's "Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy" (HALE). Unfortunately, HE estimates are extremely sensitive to me…
No Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality among Catholic Monks
We propose a novel approach to test the fundamental cause theory (FCT) by analyzing the association between socioeconomic status (SES), as measured by the order titles 'brothers' and 'padres,' and mortality in 2,421 German Catholic monks born between 1840 and 1959. This quasi-experiment allows us to study the effect of SES on mortality in a population with largely standardized living conditions. Mortality analyses based on Kaplan-Meier product li…
Standardized mean age at death (MADstd)
BACKGROUNDPeriod mean age at death (MAD) is affected by a population's age structure, and therefore by its mortality, fertility, and migration history.Period life expectancy ( 0 ) is also a mean age at death, for a standardized population with a stationary age structure.It depends only on current mortality rates.Here, we explore a middle ground: an age-standardized measure of period age at death, called MAD std , that includes both past and prese…
Cross-Sectional Association Between Life Expectancy and Unhealthy Life Years
The recently presented CroHaM hypothesis says (1) that longitudinal health domain-specific expansion and compression effects depend primarily on the health domains' mortality risk and (2) that these effects exist equivalently in the cross-sectional context, affecting differences in healthy life years (HLY) between populations and subpopulations with different levels of life expectancy (LE). We test this hypothesis by analysing the association bet…
The Gender Gap in Life Expectancy in Urban and Rural China, 2013–2018
BACKGROUND: Gender differences in mortality are embedded within mortality transitions. Rural residents generally lag behind their urban counterparts in the transitions. The study objective is to identify major causes of death that drive gender differences in mortality in urban and rural China. METHODS: We use age-, gender-, urban-rural- and cause-specific mortality data (2013-2018) derived from the national mortality surveillance system that cove…
Estimating trends in working life expectancy based on health insurance data from Germany – Challenges and advantages
Against the backdrop of population aging and growing strain on pension systems, monitoring the development of Working Life Expectancy (WLE) is vital to assess whether the policies taken are effective. This is the first study investigating time trends and educational inequalities in WLE based on German health insurance data. The analyses are based on the data of the AOK Lower Saxony (N = 3,347,912) covering three time periods (2006-08, 2011-13, an…
Trends in Activity Limitations From an International Perspective
Objectives: Examine trends in limitations among young (15-39), middle-aged (40-64) and older age-groups (>=65) and their socioeconomic differences. Methods: Population-based European Social Survey data ( N = 396,853) were used, covering 30 mostly European countries and spanning the time-period 2002-2018. Limitations were measured using a global activity limitations indicator. Results: Age-differential trends in limitations were found. Activity li…
Well-Being Adjusted Health Expectancy
We propose a new summary measure of population health (SMPH), the well-being-adjusted health expectancy (WAHE). WAHE belongs to a subgroup of health-adjusted life expectancy indicators and gives the number of life years equivalent to full health. WAHE combines health and mortality information into a single indicator with weights that quantify the reduction in well-being associated with decreased health. WAHE's advantage over other SMPHs lies in i…
Decrease in Life Expectancy in Germany in 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic caused an increase in mortality in 2020 with a resultant decrease in life expectancy in most countries around the world. In Germany, the reduction in life expectancy at birth between 2019 and 2020 was comparatively small, at -0.20 years. The decrease was stronger among men than among women (-0.24 vs. -0.13 years) and in eastern rather than in western Germany (-0.36 vs. -0.16 years). Men in eastern Germany experienced the big…
Community Social Characteristics and Health at Older Ages
Our results offer further evidence that at least some social characteristics of the community have a causal impact on health
Adult Mortality in Industrialized Societies
Ageing in an aged society
Population ageing occurs in all industrialised societies and is the demographic phenomenon that currently gets the highest attention from scientists, policy makers and the general public. The main aim of this paper is to broaden our understanding of its societal consequences, such as ageism and intergenerational solidarity. Our study is based on the 2008 investigation of attitudes towards population ageing and older people in seven European count…
Life Expectancy by Education, Income and Occupation in Germany
Reliable estimates for differences in life expectancy (LE) by socio-economic position (SEP), that can be assessed in an international context and are comprehensive in terms of considering different SEP dimensions, are missing for the German population so far. The aim of the present study is to fill this gap by providing estimates for differences in LE by education, household income, work status and vocational class. The lack of national mortality…
Estimating Mortality Differences in Developed Countries From Survey Information on Maternal and Paternal Orphanhood
In general, the use of indirect methods is limited to developing countries. Developed countries are usually assumed to have no need to apply such methods because detailed demographic data exist. However, the potentialities of demographic analysis with direct methods are limited to the characteristics of available macro data on births, deaths, and migration. For instance, in many Western countries, official population statistics do not permit the …
Differences in life expectancy by education and occupation in Italy, 1980-94
In the present study, we use the modified orphanhood method to analyse mortality differences by socio-economic status in Italy. This technique permits the indirect estimation of adult mortality from survey-based information on parents' survival in developed populations and helps to overcome several limitations of conventional studies on mortality differences by social class. We estimate a time series of life tables by education and occupation and…
Estimates of the Tempo-adjusted Total Fertility Rate in Western and Eastern Germany, 1955-2008
In this article we present estimates of the tempo-adjusted total fertility rate in Western and Eastern Germany from 1955 to 2008. Tempo adjustment of the total fertility rate (TFR) requires data on the annual number of births by parity and age of the mother. Since official statistics do not provide such data for West Germany as well as Eastern Germany from 1990 on we used alternative data sources which include these specific characteristics. The …
Tempo Effects and their Relevance in Demographic Analysis
Demographic period indicators like the total fertility rate or life expectancy are well known since more than a century and until recently there were only minor discussions about their usefulness. This changed with a series of publications by Bongaarts and Feeney (BF) in which they claimed that these indicators are inappropriate for describing current demographic conditions when the average age at childbearing respective death is changing. Theref…
Paradigm Shift in Demography? Editorial to the Special Issue 'Tempo Effects in Demographic Period Indicators
A Classification of the Nature of Mortality Data Underlying the Estimates for the 2004 and 2006 United Nations' World Population Prospects
The estimation of mortality conditions and trends is a sophisticated task for most populations in the world, above all for those of developing countries. After two decades of intensive discussion and derivation of specific estimation tools for these populations, the use of indirect estimation techniques seems largely forgotten among those who are not forced to apply them. However, for the majority of developing countries these methods are still t…
Unnatural Deaths Among Nuns and Monks
It is still unclear if and how biological factors contribute to excess male mortality due to ‘external causes’ (accidents, injuries, homicides and suicides). Sex hormones and reproductive roles are supposed to drive sex differences in behaviours increasing the male external cause mortality risk. This study analyses the external cause mortality of Catholic nuns and monks from three Bavarian cloisters whose similar environments allow the impact of …
Die Bevölkerung in Ost- und Westdeutschland
Die Bevölkerung in Ost- und Westdeutschland
Die Bevölkerung in Ost- und Westdeutschland
Mortality tempo-adjustment
The number of scholars following the tempo approach in fertility continues to grow, whereas tempo-adjustment in mortality generally still is rejected. This rejection is irrational in principle, as the basic idea behind the tempo approach is independent
Causes of Male Excess Mortality
The degree to which biological factors contribute to the existence and the widening of mortality differences by sex remains unclear. To address this question, a mortality analysis for the years 1890 to 1995 was performed comparing mortality data on more than 11,000 Catholic nuns and monks in Bavarian communities living in very nearly identical behavioral and environmental conditions with life table data for the general German population. While th…
Causes of Male Excess Mortality
The degree to which biological factors contribute to the existence and the widening of mortality differences by sex remains unclear. To address this question, a mortality analysis for the years 1890 to 1995 was performed comparing mortality data on more than 11,000 Catholic nuns and monks in Bavarian communities living in very nearly identical behavioral and environmental conditions with life table data for the general German population. While th…
Differences in life expectancy by education and occupation in Italy, 1980-94
In the present study, we use the modified orphanhood method to analyse mortality differences by socio-economic status in Italy. This technique permits the indirect estimation of adult mortality from survey-based information on parents' survival in developed populations and helps to overcome several limitations of conventional studies on mortality differences by social class. We estimate a time series of life tables by education and occupation and…
Life Expectancy by Education, Income and Occupation in Germany
Reliable estimates for differences in life expectancy (LE) by socio-economic position (SEP), that can be assessed in an international context and are comprehensive in terms of considering different SEP dimensions, are missing for the German population so far. The aim of the present study is to fill this gap by providing estimates for differences in LE by education, household income, work status and vocational class. The lack of national mortality…
Estimates of the Tempo-adjusted Total Fertility Rate in Western and Eastern Germany, 1955-2008
In this article we present estimates of the tempo-adjusted total fertility rate in Western and Eastern Germany from 1955 to 2008. Tempo adjustment of the total fertility rate (TFR) requires data on the annual number of births by parity and age of the mother. Since official statistics do not provide such data for West Germany as well as Eastern Germany from 1990 on we used alternative data sources which include these specific characteristics. The …
Tempo Effects and their Relevance in Demographic Analysis
Demographic period indicators like the total fertility rate or life expectancy are well known since more than a century and until recently there were only minor discussions about their usefulness. This changed with a series of publications by Bongaarts and Feeney (BF) in which they claimed that these indicators are inappropriate for describing current demographic conditions when the average age at childbearing respective death is changing. Theref…
Ageing in an aged society
Population ageing occurs in all industrialised societies and is the demographic phenomenon that currently gets the highest attention from scientists, policy makers and the general public. The main aim of this paper is to broaden our understanding of its societal consequences, such as ageism and intergenerational solidarity. Our study is based on the 2008 investigation of attitudes towards population ageing and older people in seven European count…
Estimating Mortality Differences in Developed Countries From Survey Information on Maternal and Paternal Orphanhood
In general, the use of indirect methods is limited to developing countries. Developed countries are usually assumed to have no need to apply such methods because detailed demographic data exist. However, the potentialities of demographic analysis with direct methods are limited to the characteristics of available macro data on births, deaths, and migration. For instance, in many Western countries, official population statistics do not permit the …
Health Expectancy
Good health is central to human happiness and well-being. It contributes substantially to economic progress, as healthy populations live longer and are more productive. The corresponding public health policies are typically assessed based on a structural indicator for "Health Expectancy" (HE) such as the EU's "Healthy Life Years" (HLY) or the WHO's "Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy" (HALE). Unfortunately, HE estimates are extremely sensitive to me…
Decrease in Life Expectancy in Germany in 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic caused an increase in mortality in 2020 with a resultant decrease in life expectancy in most countries around the world. In Germany, the reduction in life expectancy at birth between 2019 and 2020 was comparatively small, at -0.20 years. The decrease was stronger among men than among women (-0.24 vs. -0.13 years) and in eastern rather than in western Germany (-0.36 vs. -0.16 years). Men in eastern Germany experienced the big…
Paradigm Shift in Demography? Editorial to the Special Issue 'Tempo Effects in Demographic Period Indicators
Mortality tempo-adjustment
The number of scholars following the tempo approach in fertility continues to grow, whereas tempo-adjustment in mortality generally still is rejected. This rejection is irrational in principle, as the basic idea behind the tempo approach is independent
Causes of Male Excess Mortality
The degree to which biological factors contribute to the existence and the widening of mortality differences by sex remains unclear. To address this question, a mortality analysis for the years 1890 to 1995 was performed comparing mortality data on more than 11,000 Catholic nuns and monks in Bavarian communities living in very nearly identical behavioral and environmental conditions with life table data for the general German population. While th…
Mortality tempo-adjustment
The number of scholars following the tempo approach in fertility continues to grow, whereas tempo-adjustment in mortality generally still is rejected. This rejection is irrational in principle, as the basic idea behind the tempo approach is independent
Unnatural Deaths Among Nuns and Monks
It is still unclear if and how biological factors contribute to excess male mortality due to ‘external causes’ (accidents, injuries, homicides and suicides). Sex hormones and reproductive roles are supposed to drive sex differences in behaviours increasing the male external cause mortality risk. This study analyses the external cause mortality of Catholic nuns and monks from three Bavarian cloisters whose similar environments allow the impact of …
Die Bevölkerung in Ost- und Westdeutschland
Die Bevölkerung in Ost- und Westdeutschland
Die Bevölkerung in Ost- und Westdeutschland
Differences in life expectancy by education and occupation in Italy, 1980-94
In the present study, we use the modified orphanhood method to analyse mortality differences by socio-economic status in Italy. This technique permits the indirect estimation of adult mortality from survey-based information on parents' survival in developed populations and helps to overcome several limitations of conventional studies on mortality differences by social class. We estimate a time series of life tables by education and occupation and…
Estimates of the Tempo-adjusted Total Fertility Rate in Western and Eastern Germany, 1955-2008
In this article we present estimates of the tempo-adjusted total fertility rate in Western and Eastern Germany from 1955 to 2008. Tempo adjustment of the total fertility rate (TFR) requires data on the annual number of births by parity and age of the mother. Since official statistics do not provide such data for West Germany as well as Eastern Germany from 1990 on we used alternative data sources which include these specific characteristics. The …
Tempo Effects and their Relevance in Demographic Analysis
Demographic period indicators like the total fertility rate or life expectancy are well known since more than a century and until recently there were only minor discussions about their usefulness. This changed with a series of publications by Bongaarts and Feeney (BF) in which they claimed that these indicators are inappropriate for describing current demographic conditions when the average age at childbearing respective death is changing. Theref…
Paradigm Shift in Demography? Editorial to the Special Issue 'Tempo Effects in Demographic Period Indicators
A Classification of the Nature of Mortality Data Underlying the Estimates for the 2004 and 2006 United Nations' World Population Prospects
The estimation of mortality conditions and trends is a sophisticated task for most populations in the world, above all for those of developing countries. After two decades of intensive discussion and derivation of specific estimation tools for these populations, the use of indirect estimation techniques seems largely forgotten among those who are not forced to apply them. However, for the majority of developing countries these methods are still t…
Estimating Mortality Differences in Developed Countries From Survey Information on Maternal and Paternal Orphanhood
In general, the use of indirect methods is limited to developing countries. Developed countries are usually assumed to have no need to apply such methods because detailed demographic data exist. However, the potentialities of demographic analysis with direct methods are limited to the characteristics of available macro data on births, deaths, and migration. For instance, in many Western countries, official population statistics do not permit the …
Adult Mortality in Industrialized Societies
Ageing in an aged society
Population ageing occurs in all industrialised societies and is the demographic phenomenon that currently gets the highest attention from scientists, policy makers and the general public. The main aim of this paper is to broaden our understanding of its societal consequences, such as ageism and intergenerational solidarity. Our study is based on the 2008 investigation of attitudes towards population ageing and older people in seven European count…
Life Expectancy by Education, Income and Occupation in Germany
Reliable estimates for differences in life expectancy (LE) by socio-economic position (SEP), that can be assessed in an international context and are comprehensive in terms of considering different SEP dimensions, are missing for the German population so far. The aim of the present study is to fill this gap by providing estimates for differences in LE by education, household income, work status and vocational class. The lack of national mortality…
Community Social Characteristics and Health at Older Ages
Our results offer further evidence that at least some social characteristics of the community have a causal impact on health
Decrease in Life Expectancy in Germany in 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic caused an increase in mortality in 2020 with a resultant decrease in life expectancy in most countries around the world. In Germany, the reduction in life expectancy at birth between 2019 and 2020 was comparatively small, at -0.20 years. The decrease was stronger among men than among women (-0.24 vs. -0.13 years) and in eastern rather than in western Germany (-0.36 vs. -0.16 years). Men in eastern Germany experienced the big…
The Gender Gap in Life Expectancy in Urban and Rural China, 2013–2018
BACKGROUND: Gender differences in mortality are embedded within mortality transitions. Rural residents generally lag behind their urban counterparts in the transitions. The study objective is to identify major causes of death that drive gender differences in mortality in urban and rural China. METHODS: We use age-, gender-, urban-rural- and cause-specific mortality data (2013-2018) derived from the national mortality surveillance system that cove…
Estimating trends in working life expectancy based on health insurance data from Germany – Challenges and advantages
Against the backdrop of population aging and growing strain on pension systems, monitoring the development of Working Life Expectancy (WLE) is vital to assess whether the policies taken are effective. This is the first study investigating time trends and educational inequalities in WLE based on German health insurance data. The analyses are based on the data of the AOK Lower Saxony (N = 3,347,912) covering three time periods (2006-08, 2011-13, an…
Trends in Activity Limitations From an International Perspective
Objectives: Examine trends in limitations among young (15-39), middle-aged (40-64) and older age-groups (>=65) and their socioeconomic differences. Methods: Population-based European Social Survey data ( N = 396,853) were used, covering 30 mostly European countries and spanning the time-period 2002-2018. Limitations were measured using a global activity limitations indicator. Results: Age-differential trends in limitations were found. Activity li…
Well-Being Adjusted Health Expectancy
We propose a new summary measure of population health (SMPH), the well-being-adjusted health expectancy (WAHE). WAHE belongs to a subgroup of health-adjusted life expectancy indicators and gives the number of life years equivalent to full health. WAHE combines health and mortality information into a single indicator with weights that quantify the reduction in well-being associated with decreased health. WAHE's advantage over other SMPHs lies in i…
Standardized mean age at death (MADstd)
BACKGROUNDPeriod mean age at death (MAD) is affected by a population's age structure, and therefore by its mortality, fertility, and migration history.Period life expectancy ( 0 ) is also a mean age at death, for a standardized population with a stationary age structure.It depends only on current mortality rates.Here, we explore a middle ground: an age-standardized measure of period age at death, called MAD std , that includes both past and prese…
Cross-Sectional Association Between Life Expectancy and Unhealthy Life Years
The recently presented CroHaM hypothesis says (1) that longitudinal health domain-specific expansion and compression effects depend primarily on the health domains' mortality risk and (2) that these effects exist equivalently in the cross-sectional context, affecting differences in healthy life years (HLY) between populations and subpopulations with different levels of life expectancy (LE). We test this hypothesis by analysing the association bet…
Health Expectancy
Good health is central to human happiness and well-being. It contributes substantially to economic progress, as healthy populations live longer and are more productive. The corresponding public health policies are typically assessed based on a structural indicator for "Health Expectancy" (HE) such as the EU's "Healthy Life Years" (HLY) or the WHO's "Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy" (HALE). Unfortunately, HE estimates are extremely sensitive to me…
No Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality among Catholic Monks
We propose a novel approach to test the fundamental cause theory (FCT) by analyzing the association between socioeconomic status (SES), as measured by the order titles 'brothers' and 'padres,' and mortality in 2,421 German Catholic monks born between 1840 and 1959. This quasi-experiment allows us to study the effect of SES on mortality in a population with largely standardized living conditions. Mortality analyses based on Kaplan-Meier product li…
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