Potential years of life lost – criterion for socio-economic assessment of premature mortality
https://doi.org/10.47619/2713-2617.zm.2022.v.3i4;75-83
Abstract
The article deals with the issues of assessing premature mortality using potential demographic methods, which allows taking into account not only the number of death events, but also the age of the deceased. This approach, applied by the authors to assessing the trends and structure of causes of death during the pandemic in Moscow and Russia, demonstrated an overestimation of the significance of causes specific to young ages. As part of the discussion, using the example of a comparative characteristic of potential life losses in the United States and other economically developed countries, it is shown how the factor of a younger mortality structure in the United States due to a pandemic caused significantly higher not only demographic, but also social losses.
About the Authors
A. E. Ivanova
Institute for Demographic Research – Branch of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Science
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Alla E. Ivanova – D. Sci. (Economics), chief health and self-preservation behavior department
6, bld. 1, Fotieva st., 119333, Moscow
V. G. Semyonova
Institute for Demographic Research – Branch of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Science
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Victoria G. Semyonova – D. Sci. (Economics), main researcher health and self-preservation behavior department
6, bld. 1, Fotieva st., 119333, Moscow
G. N. Evdokushkina
Institute for Demographic Research – Branch of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Science
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Galina N. Evdokushkina – senior researcher health and self-preservation behavior department
6, bld. 1, Fotieva st., 119333, Moscow
I. A. Kryukova
Russian Research Institute of Health
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Irina A. Kryukova – chief specialist of organizational department
11, Dobrolyubova st., 127254, Moscow
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Ivanova A.E., Semyonova V.G., Evdokushkina G.N., Kryukova I.A. Potential years of life lost – criterion for socio-economic assessment of premature mortality. City Healthcare. 2022;3(4):75-83. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.47619/2713-2617.zm.2022.v.3i4;75-83
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