The Gender Gap in Life Expectancy in Urban and Rural China, 2013–2018

Jinjing Wu · Samir KC · Marc Luy

15 citations0/0 files storedFrontiers in Public Health

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management Health disparities and outcomes Sex and Gender in Healthcare

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Gender differences in mortality are embedded within mortality transitions. Rural residents generally lag behind their urban counterparts in the transitions. The study objective is to identify major causes of death that drive gender differences in mortality in urban and rural China. METHODS: We use age-, gender-, urban-rural- and cause-specific mortality data (2013-2018) derived from the national mortality surveillance system that covered about 24% of the Chinese population. We apply Arriaga's method to decompose age- and cause-specific contributions to the gender gap in life expectancy at birth. Analyses are stratified by urban-rural residence. RESULTS: Women had a higher life expectancy at birth than men in both urban and rural areas. Cancers, cardiovascular disease, external causes, and respiratory disease accounted for more than 90% of the gender gap in both areas during 2013-2018. In urban areas, the gender gap decreased from 5.17 years in 2013-2015 to 4.98 years in 2016-2018. In rural areas, the gender gap stayed rather constant (2013-2015: 5.68 years; 2016-2018: 5.65 years). Traffic accidents, among external causes, contributed the most to decreasing the gender gap (urban: -0.07 years; rural: -0.10 years), especially in the 0-44 age group. However, the decrease in the gender gap was counteracted by an increase in the gender gap attributable to ischemic heart disease (urban: +0.05 years; rural: +0.08 years) and lung cancer (urban: +0.02 years; rural: +0.05 years) in older age groups. The gender gap attributable either to cerebrovascular disease or to chronic lower respiratory disease decreased in urban areas but increased in rural areas. CONCLUSIONS: The urban-rural variations in the cause-specific contributions to the gender gap in China suggest the necessity of implementing urban-rural-specific interventions to improve population health and health equity.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 15 citations exist upstream.

References

2002Demography, Measuring and Modeling Population Processes 2012Urbanisation and health in China 2019Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults 1984Measuring and explaining the change in life expectancies 2015An integrated national mortality surveillance system for death registration and mortality surveillance, China 2010Gender and Health Inequality 2004Convergences and divergences in mortality 2008An integrated approach to cause-of-death analysis: cause-deleted life tables and decompositions of life expectancy

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.