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Age- and cause-specific contributions of deaths of despair to changes in life expectancy across European countries, 2001-2021

2026-07-10

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background Deaths of despair (DoD)—comprising suicide, drug-related, and alcohol-related deaths— have been linked to recent slowdowns in life expectancy (LE) in the USA, but comparative cross-national evidence on their contributions to LE changes across Europe remains limited. This study quantified the age- and cause-specific contributions of DoD to changes in LE at birth across Europe...

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Literature Corpus work: 7fef43ef-410a-58ea-bb2b-33859ea0b7fd
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9983069/v1

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