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

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

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

Author(s) -

José Manuel Aburto,

Jonas Schöley,

Ilya Kashnitsky,

Luyin Zhang,

Charles Rahal,

Trifon I. Missov,

Melinda Mills,

Jennifer B. Dowd,

Ridhi Kashyap

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyab207

Subject(s) - pandemic , life expectancy , covid-19 , population , demography , excess mortality , geography , medicine , environmental health , outbreak , disease , virology , pathology , sociology , infectious disease (medical specialty)

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 provides a clear and cross-nationally comparable picture of the population-level impacts of the pandemic on mortality.

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