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Title: Association Between Educational Attainment and Causes of Death Among White and Black US Adults, 2010-2017

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2019

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DOI: 10.1001/jama.2019.11330

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Abstract: There are substantial and increasing educational differences in US adult life expectancy. To reduce social inequalities in mortality, it is important to understand how specific causes of death have contributed to increasing educational differences in adult life expectancy in recent years. To estimate the relationship of specific causes of death with increasing educational differences in adult life expectancy from 2010 to 2017. In this serial cross-sectional study, estimated life expectancy at age 25 years declined overall between 2010 and 2017; however, it declined among persons without a 4-year college degree and increased among college-educated persons. Much of the increasing educational differences in years of life lost may be related to deaths attributed to drug use.

Url: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2748794

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Authors: Sasson, Isaac; Hayqard, Mark, D

Periodical (Full): The Journal of the American Medical Association

Issue: 8

Volume: 332

Pages: 756-763

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Fertility and Mortality, Health

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