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Sterblichkeit und Gesundheit in Deutschland

Dmitri A. Jdanov, Vladimir M. Shkolnikov, Marina Kolobova, Domantas Jasilionis, Isabella Marinetti; in Zusammenarbeit mit Sebastian Klüsener, Pavel Grigoriev (beide: Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Deutschland), Rembrandt D. Scholz (MPIDR)

Ausführliche Beschreibung

In this project, we analyze health and mortality in Germany, including but not limited to the following research areas: long-term mortality trends by causes of death, the East-West mortality gap, regional mortality trends and patterns, and socioeconomic mortality differentials. We also investigate the determinants behind the longstanding German disadvantage in life expectancy compared to other high-income countries. 

It was suggested that health progress in eastern Germany has been largely due to reductions in cardiovascular disease and other chronic conditions. Despite extensive research, the factors underlying the marked mortality improvements in eastern Germany are still not fully understood. We thus use reconstructed cause-of-death series for eastern and western Germany to contribute to uncovering the determinants behind the narrowing of the East–West mortality gap in Germany.

Reducing mortality disparities between socioeconomic groups has been an important public health priority worldwide. Yet the analysis of inequalities by socioeconomic status in Germany is complicated by the lack of appropriate data. The project fills this gap by using German Pension Fund data; this allowed us to assess the socioeconomic gradient of German mortality and its changes over time at both the national and regional levels. 

Finally, two dissertations are being prepared on regional mortality variations in Germany and other high-income countries, one by Isabella Marinetti (Effects of Short-Term Events on Subnational Life-Expectancy Trends in Europe) and the other by Marina Kolobova (Mortality Disparities at the Subnational Level in Germany).

Publikationen

Grigoriev, P.; Sauerberg. M.; Jasilionis, D.; van Raalte, A. A.; Klüsener, S.:

Sterblichkeitsentwicklung in Deutschland im internationalen Kontext

Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz , 1–11. (2024)    

Jasilionis, D.; van Raalte, A. A.; Klüsener, S.; Grigoriev, P.:

Re: The pitfalls of focusing on cardiovascular disease mortality to explain differences in life expectancy [Correspondence]

European Journal of Epidemiology 39, 339–341. (2024)    

Jasilionis, D.; van Raalte, A. A.; Klüsener, S.; Grigoriev, P.:

The underwhelming German life expectancy

European Journal of Epidemiology, 1–12. (2023)    

Grigoriev, O.; Doblhammer, G.:

Does the mortality of individuals with severe disabilities contribute to the persistent East–West mortality gap among German men?

European Journal of Population 38:2, 247–271. (2022)    

Grigoriev, P.; Pechholdová, M.; Mühlichen, M.; Scholz, R. D.; Klüsener, S.:

30 Jahre Deutsche Einheit: Errungenschaften und verbliebene Unterschiede in der Mortalitätsentwicklung nach Alter und Todesursachen

Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz 64:4, 481–490. (2021)    

van Raalte, A. A.; Klüsener, S.; Oksuzyan, A.; Grigoriev, P.:

Declining regional disparities in mortality in the context of persisting large inequalities in economic conditions: the case of Germany

International Journal of Epidemiology 49:2, 486–496. (2020)    

Grigoriev, O.; Doblhammer, G.:

Changing educational gradient in long-term-care-free life expectancy among German men, 1997-2012

PLOS One 14:9, e0222842–e0222842. (2019)    

Grigoriev, P.; Scholz, R. D.; Shkolnikov, V. M.:

Socioeconomic differences in mortality among 27 million economically active Germans: a cross-sectional analysis of the German Pension Fund data

BMJ Open 9:10, e028001–e028001. (2019)    

Wenau, G.; Grigoriev, P.; Shkolnikov, V. M.:

Socioeconomic disparities in life expectancy gains among retired German men, 1997-2016

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 73:7, 605–611. (2019)    

Klüsener, S.; Grigoriev, P.; Scholz, R. D.; Jdanov, D. A.:

Adjusting inter-censal population estimates for Germany 1987-2011: approaches and impact on demographic indicators

Comparative Population Studies 43, 31–64. (2018)    

Grigoriev, P.; Pechholdová, M.:

Health convergence between East and West Germany as reflected in long-term cause-specific mortality trends: to what extent was it due to reunification?

European Journal of Population 33:5, 701–731. (2017)    

Pechholdová, M.; Grigoriev, P.; Meslé, F.; Vallin, J.:

Have life expectancies in eastern and western Germany converged since reunification?

Population and Societies, 1–4. (2017)    

Pechholdová, M.; Grigoriev, P.; Meslé, F.; Vallin, J.:

Espérance de vie : les deux Allemagne ont-elles convergé depuis la réunification?

Population et Sociétés, 1–4. (2017)    

Vogt, T. C.; van Raalte, A. A.; Grigoriev, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

The German East-West mortality difference: two crossovers driven by smoking

Demography 54:3, 1051–1071. (2017)    

Vogt, T. C.; van Raalte, A. A.; Grigoriev, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

German East-West mortality difference: two cross-overs driven by smoking

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2016-004. (2016)