Old-age mortality in Israel: analysis of variation and change
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1995
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Friedlander, Dov
Schellekens, Jona
Cohen, Refaela Sharashov
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Health Transition Centre, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health,
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This study analyses differentials in life expectancy and cause-specific death rates among the elderly Jewish population in Israel in the early 1970s and early 1980s. We find substantial inequality in old-age mortality levels across subpopulations in geographic units and show that this inequality increased between the two periods. Much of the variation in old-age mortality is explained by differences in economic and social status, ethnicity and religiosity. The importance of religiosity is of particular interest in the context of Israeli society.
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Old-age, mortality, Israel, elderly Jewish population, religiosity, ethnicity
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