Significant impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on race/ethnic differences in US mortality

JM Aburto, AM Tilstra, G Floridi… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic triggered global declines in life expectancy.
The United States was hit particularly hard among high-income countries. Early data from …

Dynamics of life expectancy and life span equality

JM Aburto, F Villavicencio, U Basellini… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
As people live longer, ages at death are becoming more similar. This dual advance over the
last two centuries, a central aim of public health policies, is a major achievement of modern …

What have we learned about mortality patterns over the past 25 years?

AA van Raalte - Population Studies, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, I examine progress in the field of mortality over the past 25 years. I argue that
we have been most successful in taking advantage of an increasingly data-rich environment …

The casualties of war: an excess mortality estimate of lives lost in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

A Karlinsky, O Torrisi - Population Research and Policy Review, 2023 - Springer
Who and how many died in the 2020 Karabakh War? With limited evidence provided by
authorities, media outlets, and human rights organizations, still little is known about the …

A global assessment of the impact of violence on lifetime uncertainty

JM Aburto, V Di Lego, T Riffe, R Kashyap… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Uncertainty around age at death, or lifetime uncertainty, is a key public health indicator and
a marker of inequality in survival. How does the extent of violence affect lifetime uncertainty …

Probability of males to outlive females: an international comparison from 1751 to 2020

MP Bergeron-Boucher, JA Alvarez, I Kashnitsky… - BMJ open, 2022 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective To measure sex differences in lifespan based on the probability of males to outlive
females. Design International comparison of national and regional sex-specific life tables …

Barriers and drivers to the adoption of sustainable construction practices in developing countries: A case study of Venezuela

P Pradhananga, M Elzomor… - Journal of Architectural …, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
Several efforts have decreased the environmental footprint from the construction field in
developed countries. In contrast, sustainability is often overlooked in developing countries …

Black-white disparities during an epidemic: life expectancy and lifespan disparity in the US, 1980–2000

JM Aburto, FF Kristensen, P Sharp - Economics & Human Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Covid-19 has demonstrated again that epidemics can affect minorities more than the
population in general. We consider one of the last major epidemics in the United States …

[HTML][HTML] Reflexos da imigração venezuelana na assistência em saúde no maior hospital de Roraima: análise qualitativa

L Arruda-Barbosa, AFG Sales… - Saúde e Sociedade, 2020 - SciELO Public Health
O crescente fluxo de imigração venezuelana provocou discussões acerca da inserção
dessa comunidade no território brasileiro. Atualmente, o sistema de saúde roraimense tem …

Impact of COVID-19 on subnational variations in life expectancy and life disparity at birth in India: evidence from NFHS and SRS data

PK Yadav, S Yadav - Archives of Public Health, 2023 - Springer
Background Measuring life expectancy and life disparity can assist in comprehending how
the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the mortality estimates in the Indian population. The …