The life table paradox
Has Brazil already overcome it
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3041367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Filipe Costa De Souza (0000-0001-9903-5403, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Pages | 1-23 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0102-3098 • E-ISSN: 1980-5519 |
| Publisher | Associacao Brasileira de Estudos Populacionais (PUBLISHER • BR) |
| DOI | 10.20947/s0102-3098a0179 |
| OpenAlex | W4206509121 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
Ideally, life expectancy should be a decreasing function of age. When this fact is not observed, this situation is known as the life table paradox. This paper investigated the timing (and health metrics at the time) in which Brazil and its Federation Units (FU) overcame (or are expected to overcome) this paradox. The data were gathered from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics and contained 3,416 sex-specific abridged life tables, from 2000 to 2060. At national level, females and males overcame the paradox in 2016 and 2018, respectively. However, when the FU were examined separately, much heterogeneity was observed. Through the decomposition analysis of the change over time in the difference between life expectancy at birth and at age one, we found that Brazil and most of its FU are expected to have both changes declining over time and the total change is expected to be decreasing and greater than zero. Nevertheless, for some Northeastern states the total change is expected to pass from a positive to a negative value; and for two Northern states the total change is expected to be neither decreasing nor increasing. In a public planning perspective, we understand that achieving balancing in the life tables is a goal to be pursued, especially because having an imbalanced table means that life expectancy at birth is still strongly influenced by high levels of infant mortality. Therefore, this knowledge could help planners to properly define strategies to accelerate the balancing process and revert unequal scenarios
Expectancy theory · Geography · Life expectancy · Life table · Sociology · Table (database · Computer Science · Demography · Global Health Care Issues · Health disparities and outcomes · Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management · Psychology · Social Psychology
Biodemography of human ageing
Causes of international increases in older age life expectancy
Association between expansion of primary healthcare and racial inequalities in mortality amenable to primary care in Brazil
Prenatal care in the Brazilian public health services
Racial Disparities in Life Expectancy in Brazil
Classification, Detection and Consequences of Data Error
Health transition in Brazil
Pesquisa Nascer no Brasil
Length of life inequality around the globe
Relationships between period and cohort life expectancy
Distributionally adjusted life expectancy as a life table function
The crossover between life expectancies at birth and at age one
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |