ArticleJournal of epidemiology and community health2019
Mortality inequalities by occupational class among men in Japan, South Korea and eight European countries: a national register-based study, 1990-2015.
Article in Journal of epidemiology and community health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 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
33 citing papers in PubMed.
- Development of a comprehensive mortality database in Japan through data linkage of population census and vital statistics.Population health metrics · 2026Article
- Occupational Disparities in Cancer Survival Among the Working Population in Japan: 10-Year Survival Analysis Using the Kanagawa Cancer Registry.Cancer medicine · 2025Observational
- Association of premarital pregnancy with adverse birth outcomes and its characteristics in Japan.Contraception and reproductive medicine · 2025Article
- Bringing the group back in: Social class and resistance in adolescent smoking.Sociology of health & illness · 2025Article
- Occupational disparities in common cancer screening participation among workers: a nationwide cross-sectional study in Japan.Journal of occupational health · 2025Article
- Incidence of coronary heart disease among remote workers: a nationwide web-based cohort study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Inequalities in Mortality in the Asia-Pacific: A Cross-National Comparison of Socioeconomic Gradients.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2024Article
- Educational inequalities in all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Japan: national census-linked mortality data for 2010-15.International journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
- Trends in socioeconomic inequalities in life expectancy and lifespan variation in Chile.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Changes in longevity inequality by education among OECD countries before the COVID-19 pandemic.BMC public health · 2023Observational
- The impact of alcohol taxation increase on all-cause mortality inequalities in Lithuania: an interrupted time series analysis.BMC medicine · 2023Article
- Mortality of Suicide and Cerebro-Cardiovascular Diseases by Occupation in Korea, 1997-2020.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among older recipients of public welfare assistance in Japan.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2022Article
- Occupational inequalities in mortality in Korea: an analysis using nationally representative mortality follow-up data from the late 2000s and after.Epidemiology and health · 2022Article
- Article
- Article
- Trends and socioeconomic inequalities in self-rated health in Japan, 1986-2016.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Association of managerial position with cardiovascular risk factors: A fixed-effects analysis for Japanese employees.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2021Article
- Occupational difference in use of heated tobacco products: a cross-sectional analysis of retail workers in Japan.BMJ open · 2021Article
- Analysis of factors contributing to occupational health inequality in Korea: a cross-sectional study using nationally representative survey data.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
11 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundWe compared mortality inequalities by occupational class in Japan and South Korea with those in European countries, in order to determine whether patterns are similar.
methodsNational register-based data from Japan, South Korea and eight European countries (Finland, Denmark, England/Wales, France, Switzerland, Italy (Turin), Estonia, Lithuania) covering the period between 1990 and 2015 were collected and harmonised. We calculated age-standardised all-cause and cause-specific mortality among men aged 35-64 by occupational class and measured the magnitude of inequality with rate differences, rate ratios and the average inter-group difference.
resultsClear gradients in mortality were found in all European countries throughout the study period: manual workers had 1.6-2.5 times higher mortality than upper non-manual workers. However, in the most recent time-period, upper non-manual workers had higher mortality than manual workers in Japan and South Korea. This pattern emerged as a result of a rise in mortality among the upper non-manual group in Japan during the late 1990s, and in South Korea during the late 2000s, due to rising mortality from cancer and external causes (including suicide), in addition to strong mortality declines among lower non-manual and manual workers.
conclusionPatterns of mortality by occupational class are remarkably different between European countries and Japan and South Korea. The recently observed patterns in the latter two countries may be related to a larger impact on the higher occupational classes of the economic crisis of the late 1990s and the late 2000s, respectively, and show that a high socioeconomic position does not guarantee better health.
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.