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Mortality and Health in Germany

Pavel Grigoriev, Vladimir M. Shkolnikov, Domantas Jasilionis, Dmitri A. Jdanov; in Collaboration with Georg Wenau, Olga Grigoriev, Roland Rau (all: MPIDR), Rembrandt D. Scholz (Berlin, Germany), Markéta Pechholdová (University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic), France Meslé, Vallin Jacques (both: French National Institute for Demographic Studies, Paris, France), Eva Kibele (The Statistical Office of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, Germany), Gabriele Doblhammer (University of Rostock, Germany), Sebastian Klüsener (Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Germany)

This project covers various research aspects related to survival and health in Germany and its regions. It focuses on the reconstruction and analysis of mortality by cause, by East-West mortality differences, health of the elderly, regional variation, and by socioeconomic mortality differentials.  Detailed Description

Publications

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, 1–25. (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 , 1–10. (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)