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Surface Plots of Rates of Mortality Improvement for Selected Causes of Death in the United States

In: Visualizing Mortality Dynamics in the Lexis Diagram

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  • Roland Rau

    (University of Rostock, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences)

  • Christina Bohk-Ewald

    (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)

  • Magdalena M. Muszyńska

    (Warsaw School of Economics, Collegium of Economic Analysis)

  • James W. Vaupel

    (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
    University of Southern Denmark, Department of Public Health
    Duke University)

Abstract

This chapter shows that ROMI plots, as presented in the previous chapter, can not only be employed for mortality from all-causes but also for cause-specific mortality. They allow us to demonstrate that the slow increase in life expectancy among women in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s can not be attributed to heart diseases or stroke. Instead, mortality from respiratory diseases and from lung cancer, the latter featuring a pronounced cohort effect, suppressed faster gains in life expectancy.

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  • Roland Rau & Christina Bohk-Ewald & Magdalena M. Muszyńska & James W. Vaupel, 2018. "Surface Plots of Rates of Mortality Improvement for Selected Causes of Death in the United States," The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, in: Visualizing Mortality Dynamics in the Lexis Diagram, chapter 0, pages 69-80, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:ssdmcp:978-3-319-64820-0_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-64820-0_7
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