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Rectangularization of the survival curve in the Netherlands
— an analysis of underlying causes of death | | Author(s) | Wilma J Nusselder, Johan P Mackenbach |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 52B, no 3, May 1997 |
| Pages | pp S145-S154 |
| Keywords | Death ; Longevity ; Life expectancy tables ; Statistics ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | This study analysed the contribution of selected causes of death to rectangularisation of the survival curve of Dutch men and women aged over 60 in the 1980s, and determined why this took place in the 1980s but not in the 1970s. The contribution of causes of death was determined by means of a decomposition analysis, using mortality data on underlying causes of death, sex, and age from Statistics Netherlands. Results show that mortality reductions from ischaemic heart disease, cerebrovascular diseases, and lung cancer (men only) and mortality increases from chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (men only) and mental disorders (women only) contributed to rectangularisation in the 1980s. Comparison with the 1970s, in addition, demonstrated that in particular changes in mortality at advanced ages (i.e. smaller mortality reductions and mortality increases) were responsible for the reversal from a decreasingly rectangular shape of the survival curve in the 1970s to a rectangularisation in the 1980s. The combination of increased survival to advanced ages and reduced survival at advanced ages explains why rectangularisation of the survival curve took place recently in the Netherlands. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-971125256 A |
| Classmark | CW: BGA: S7: 3Y: 76H |
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