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| Title |
The importance of regional availability of health care for old age survival - Findings from German reunification
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Population Health Metrics, September 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12963-015-0060-2 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Tobias C. Vogt, James W. Vaupel |
| Abstract |
This article investigates the importance of regional health care availability for old age survival. Using German reunification as a natural experiment, we show that spatial variation in health care in East Germany considerably influenced the convergence of East German life expectancy toward West German levels. We apply cause-deleted life tables and continuous mortality decomposition for the years 1982-2007 to show how reductions in circulatory mortality among the elderly affected the East German catch-up in life expectancy. Improvements in remaining life expectancy at older ages were first seen in towns with university hospitals, where state-of-the-art services became available first. Our results suggest that the modernization of the health care system had a substantial effect on old-age life expectancy and helped to significantly reduce circulatory diseases as the main cause of death in East Germany. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 11 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 18% |
| France | 1 | 9% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 9% |
| Unknown | 7 | 64% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 5 | 45% |
| Members of the public | 4 | 36% |
| Scientists | 2 | 18% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 12 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 12 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 25% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 17% |
| Librarian | 1 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 1 | 8% |
| Other | 1 | 8% |
| Other | 2 | 17% |
| Unknown | 2 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 25% |
| Social Sciences | 2 | 17% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 1 | 8% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 8% |
| Engineering | 1 | 8% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 4 | 33% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 June 2023.
All research outputs
#6,127,820
of 24,932,434 outputs
Outputs from Population Health Metrics
#162
of 408 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#68,424
of 280,369 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Population Health Metrics
#2
of 10 outputs
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