Spatio-temporal model to estimate life expectancy and to detect unusual trends at the local authority level in England.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To estimate life expectancy at the local authority level and detect those areas that have a substantially low life expectancy after accounting for deprivation.

Design

We used registration data from the Office for National Statistics on mortality and population in England, by local authority, age group and socioeconomic deprivation decile, for both men and women over the period 2001-2018. We used a statistical model within the Bayesian framework to produce robust mortality rates, which were then transformed to life expectancy estimates. A rule based on exceedance probabilities was used to detect local authorities characterised by a low life expectancy among areas with a similar deprivation level from 2012 onwards.

Results

We confirmed previous findings showi

SUBMITTER: Boulieri A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7662413 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature