@article{ref1,
title="Differences in mortality by educational level in Italy (2012-2014)",
journal="Epidemiologia e Prevenzione",
year="2018",
author="Petrelli, Alessio and Zengarini, Nicolás and Demuru, Elena and Giorgi Rossi, Paolo and Sebastiani, Gabriella and Gaudio, Raffaella and Costa, Giuseppe and Mirisola, Concetta and Alicandro, Gianfranco and Frova, Luisa",
volume="42",
number="5-6",
pages="288-300",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: to evaluate socioeconomic inequalities in mortality by educational level in Italy. <br><br>DESIGN: cohort study based on the record linkage between the 2012-2014 archives of mortality and the 2011 Italian population Census. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Italian population registered in the 2011 Census. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: life expectancy by educational level, age-standardized mortality rates, mortality rate ratios (MRRs) for overall mortality, and 12 groups of causes of death. <br><br>RESULTS: life expectancy at birth was 80.3 years among men and 84.9 among women. High-educated men were expected to live 3 years longer than lower educated men, while the gap was narrower in women (1.5 years). Lower educated men had a higher mortality from any cause (MRR: 1.34; 95%CI 1.33-1.35) with larger differentials for lung, upper aerodigestive, and liver cancers, respiratory system diseases, AIDS and accidents. Socioeconomic inequalities were larger in the North-West of the Country for lung and liver cancer. Educational inequalities were smaller among women for all-cause mortality, but remarkably larger for circulatory system diseases (MRR: 1.40; 95%CI 1.38-1.42), particularly in the South (MRR: 1.46; 95%CI 1.42-1.50). <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: this study documented socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in Italy for many causes of death; some of them resulted heterogeneous by area of residence. Most of the inequalities can be counteracted with specific measures aimed to improve behavioural risk factors among less educated people.<p /> <p>Language: it</p>",
language="it",
issn="1120-9763",
doi="10.19191/EP18.5-6.P288.097",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.19191/EP18.5-6.P288.097"
}