ArticleKolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
Regional Mortality Disparities in Germany: Long-Term Dynamics and Possible Determinants.
Article in Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed.
- Generational variation and life‑course accumulation of social inequalities in all-cause mortality in Germany: a cohort-sequential study.International journal for equity in health · 2026Article
- Perspectives on workplaces choices among physicians and nurses in peripheral hospitals.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- An innovative visual approach to the simultaneous study of two dimensions of progress in longevity: an application to French and German regions.Population health metrics · 2024Article
- Research on social and economic factors influencing regional mortality patterns in China.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Measuring generic health using the minimum european health module: does it work and is it better than self-rated health?BMC public health · 2023Article
- The underwhelming German life expectancy.European journal of epidemiology · 2023Article
- Different health systems - Different mortality outcomes? Regional disparities in avoidable mortality across German-speaking Europe, 1992-2019.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
- Quantifying the contribution of smoking to regional mortality disparities in Germany: a cross-sectional study.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Does the Mortality of Individuals with Severe Disabilities Contribute to the Persistent East-West Mortality Gap Among German Men?European journal of population = Revue europeenne de demographie · 2022Article
- Changes in regional variation in mortality over five decades - The contribution of age and socioeconomic population composition.SSM - population health · 2021Article
- Probabilistic Projection of Subnational Life Expectancy.Journal of official statistics · 2021Article
- [30 years of German unification: achievements and remaining differences in mortality trends by age and cause of death].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2021Article
- Thirty years after German reunification: population health between solidarity and global competitiveness.European journal of public health · 2020Article
- Declining regional disparities in mortality in the context of persisting large inequalities in economic conditions: the case of Germany.International journal of epidemiology · 2020Article
- Socioeconomic disparities in life expectancy gains among retired German men, 1997-2016.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2019Article
- Avoidable Mortality in the German Baltic Sea Region Since Reunification: Convergence or Persistent Disparities?European journal of population = Revue europeenne de demographie · 2019Article
- Avoidable Cancer Mortality in Germany Since Reunification: Regional Variation and Sex Differences.Frontiers in public health · 2019Article
- Article
- Article
- Regional Differences in the Prevalence of Cardiovascular Disease.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2016Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
While regional mortality inequalities in Germany tend to be relatively stable in the short run, over the course of the past century marked changes have occurred in the country's regional mortality patterns. These changes include not only the re-emergence of stark differences between eastern and western Germany after 1970, which have almost disappeared again in the decades after the reunification of Germany in 1990; but also substantial changes in the disparities between northern and southern Germany. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the northern regions in Germany had the highest life expectancy levels, while the southern regions had the lowest. Today, this mortality pattern is reversed. In this paper, we study these long-term trends in spatial mortality disparities in Germany since 1910, and link them with theoretical considerations and existing research on the possible determinants of these patterns. Our findings support the view that the factors which contributed to shape spatial mortality variation have changed substantially over time, and suggest that the link between regional socioeconomic conditions and recorded mortality levels strengthened over the last 100 years.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.