The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy in the USA: An application of hybrid life expectancy.
COVID-19 pandemic
hybrid life expectancy
life expectancy
pandemic duration
Journal
Biology methods & protocols
ISSN: 2396-8923
Titre abrégé: Biol Methods Protoc
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101693064
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2023
2023
Historique:
received:
21
08
2023
revised:
07
10
2023
accepted:
17
10
2023
medline:
6
11
2023
pubmed:
6
11
2023
entrez:
6
11
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Pandemics are, by definition, temporary intervals of substantially increased mortality rates experienced across a wide geographic area. One way of assessing the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic in the USA has been to compute the differences in life expectancy at birth during a pandemic year and the year before the pandemic. Such comparisons are misleading because they do not account for the duration of the pandemic. The computation of life expectancy in 2019 assumes that people spend their entire lives experiencing prepandemic mortality rates. The computation of life expectancy in 2021 assumes that people live their entire lives in a permanent pandemic. However, people do not live their entire lives experiencing the elevated mortality rates of 2021. This article introduces a method for calculating life expectancy that reflects the experience of people enduring pandemic-level mortality rates for fixed durations. We call the new quantity
Identifiants
pubmed: 37929068
doi: 10.1093/biomethods/bpad025
pii: bpad025
pmc: PMC10621591
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
bpad025Informations de copyright
© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press.
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