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Gender differences in time to first hospital admission at age 60 in Denmark, 1995–2014
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dc.contributor.author | Höhn, Andreas | |
dc.contributor.author | Oksuzyan, Anna | |
dc.contributor.author | Lindahl-Jacobsen, Rune | |
dc.contributor.author | Christensen, Kaare | |
dc.contributor.author | Seaman, Rosie | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-08-27T15:30:18Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-08-27T15:30:18Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-12-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Höhn , A , Oksuzyan , A , Lindahl-Jacobsen , R , Christensen , K & Seaman , R 2021 , ' Gender differences in time to first hospital admission at age 60 in Denmark, 1995–2014 ' , European Journal of Ageing , vol. 18 , pp. 443-451 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-021-00614-w | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1613-9372 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 275394552 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 4aa1fdf8-8e81-4ce9-b2ee-7b7b9db4f7c5 | |
dc.identifier.other | crossref: 10.1007/s10433-021-00614-w | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-7170-1205/work/98488314 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 85103395497 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/23858 | |
dc.description | Funding: This research was supported by the US National Institute of Health (P01AG031719, R01AG026786, and 2P01AG031719), the VELUX Foundation, the Max Planck Society within the framework of the project “On the edge of societies: New vulnerable populations, emerging challenges for social policies and future demands for social innovation and the experience of the Baltic Sea States (2016-2021)”, and the European Research Council (Grant Number 716323). Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Women have consistently lower mortality rates than men at all ages and with respect to most causes. However, gender differences regarding hospital admission rates are more mixed, varying across ages and causes. A number of intuitive metrics have previously been used to explore changes in hospital admissions over time, but have not explicitly quantified the gender gap or estimated the cumulative contribution from cause-specific admission rates. Using register data for the total Danish population between 1995 and 2014, we estimated the time to first hospital admission for Danish men and women aged 60. This is an intuitive population-level metric with the same interpretive and mathematical properties as period life expectancy. Using a decomposition approach, we were able to quantify the cumulative contributions from eight causes of hospital admission to the gender gap in time to first hospital admission. Between 1995 and 2014, time to first admission increased for both, men (7.6 to 9.4 years) and women (8.3 to 10.3 years). However, the magnitude of gender differences in time to first admission remained relatively stable within this time period (0.7 years in 1995, 0.9 years in 2014). After age 60, Danish men had consistently higher rates of admission for cardiovascular conditions and neoplasms, but lower rates of admission for injuries, musculoskeletal disorders, and sex-specific causes. Although admission rates for both genders have generally declined over the last decades, the same major causes of admission accounted for the gender gap. Persistent gender differences in causes of admission are, therefore, important to consider when planning the delivery of health care in times of population ageing. | |
dc.format.extent | 9 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | European Journal of Ageing | en |
dc.rights | Copyright © The Author(s) 2021. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. | en |
dc.subject | Gender differences | en |
dc.subject | Hospital admissions | en |
dc.subject | Healthcare use | en |
dc.subject | Health | en |
dc.subject | RA Public aspects of medicine | en |
dc.subject | 3rd-DAS | en |
dc.subject | SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being | en |
dc.subject | SDG 5 - Gender Equality | en |
dc.subject | MCC | en |
dc.subject.lcc | RA | en |
dc.title | Gender differences in time to first hospital admission at age 60 in Denmark, 1995–2014 | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Geography & Sustainable Development | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-021-00614-w | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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