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Project

Mortality Disparities at the Subnational Level

Conducted by Dmitri A. Jdanov; Domantas Jasilionis, László Németh, Vladimir M. Shkolnikov; in Collaboration with Pekka Martikainen (MPIDR), Magali Barbieri (University of California, Berkeley, USA and French National Institute for Demographic Studies, Paris, France), Vladimir Canudas Romo, Sergey Timonin (both: Australian National University, Canberra, Australia), Lajos Bálint (Hungarian Demographic Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary), Alda Azevedo (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Filipe Ribeiro (University of Évora, Portugal), France Meslé, Jacques Vallin (both: French National Institute for Demographic Studies, Paris, France), Sebastian Klüsener, Pavel Grigoriev (both: Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Germany), Henrik Brønnum-Hansen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Daumantas Stumbrys (Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania)

This project systematically monitors and assesses mortality inequalities across socioeconomic groups and various levels of administrative division. We also test various methods to: a) derive coherent, comparable, and statistically robust area- and group-specific mortality and longevity estimates; and b) assess the size of mortality inequalities. A special focus is on the lowest-mortality population groups and regions as potential predictors of the future mortality of entire national populations.  Detailed Description

Publications

Grigoriev, P.; Jasilionis, D.; Timonin, S. A.; Levchuk, N.; Shevchuk, P.; Penina, O.; Kovács, K.; Klüsener, S.:

Geographical divides in male premature mortality in the CEE–FSU European region: an ecological study of 2320 spatial units in 12 countries, 2003–2019

BMC Public Health 4:1, 1–11. (2026)    

Marinetti, I.; Jdanov, D. A.; Jasilionis, D.; Nepomuceno, M. R.; Shkolnikov, V. M.; Janssen, F.:

Seasonal mortality and its impact on spatial inequality in life expectancy across Italy

European Journal of Population 41:30, 1–22. (2025)    

Manthey, J.; Jasilionis, D.; Jiang, H.; Meščeriakova-Veliulienė, O.; Petkevičienė, J.; Radišauskas, R.; Štelemėkas, M.; Rehm, J.:

The impact of alcohol taxation increase on all-cause mortality inequalities in Lithuania: an interrupted time series analysis

BMC Medicine 21:22, 1–10. (2023)    

Marinetti, I.; Jdanov, D. A.; Grigoriev, P.; Klüsener, S.; Janssen, F.:

Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy and premature mortality in the German federal states in 2020 and 2021

PLOS One 18:12, e0295763–e0295763. (2023)    

Stickley, A.; Baburin, A.; Jasilionis, D.; Krumins, J.; Martikainen, P.; Kondo, N.; Shin, J. I.; Oh, H.; Waldman, K.; Leinsalu, M.:

Educational inequalities in hypothermia mortality in the Baltic countries and Finland in 2000–2015

European Journal of Public Health 33:4, 555–560. (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.; Klüsener, S.; van Raalte, A. A.:

Quantifying the contribution of smoking to regional mortality disparities in Germany: a cross-sectional study

BMJ Open 12:9, e064249–e064249. (2022)    

Timonin, S. A.; Jasilionis, D.; Shkolnikov, V. M.; Andreev, E. M.:

New perspective on geographical mortality divide in Russia: a district-level cross-sectional analysis, 2008-2012

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 74:2, 144–150. (2020)    

Timonin, S. A.; Danilova, I. A.; Andreev, E. M.; Shkolnikov, V. M.:

Recent mortality trend reversal in Russia: are regions following the same tempo?

European Journal of Population 33:5, 733–763. (2017)