Quantifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through life-expectancy losses: a population-level study of 29 countries

Manuel Aburto, José; Schöley, Jonas; Kashnitsky, Ilya; Zhang, Luyin; Rahal, Charles; I. Missov, Trifon; Mills, Melinda; B. Dowd, Jennifer; Kashyap, Ridhi

doi:10.1093/ije/dyab207

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Quantifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through life-expectancy losses: a population-level study of 29 countries

Published in International Journal of Epidemiology • Sep 8, 2021

Authors:

José Manuel Aburto

Jonas Schöley

Ilya Kashnitsky

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Variations in the age patterns and magnitudes of excess deaths, as well as differences in population sizes and age structures, make cross-national comparisons of the cumulative mortality impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic challenging. Life expectancy is a widely used indicator that provide...

Subject

Pandemic

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Life expectancy

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