The contribution of drug-related deaths to the US disadvantage in mortality (original) (raw)

Int J Epidemiol. 2019 Jun; 48(3): 1026.

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First published online: 28 December 2018, Int J Epidemiol 2018, doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyy288.

In the originally published version of this article, the dark and light shading for ‘Drugs’ and ‘All other causes’ were inadvertently reversed in the legend of Figure 4. This has now been corrected.

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Contribution of drug-related mortality to the difference in life expectancy at birth between the USA and 12 other high-income countries in 2014, by sex (country ranking for each sex from the smallest to the largest overall difference). The figure represents the difference in life expectancy at birth between the USA and each of 12 comparison countries in 2014, decomposed between the portion of this difference attributable to drug-related mortality and the portion attributable to all other causes. The decomposition method implemented is that proposed by Andreev, Shkolnikov and Begun18.

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