{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,2]],"date-time":"2026-09-02T10:02:15Z","timestamp":1788343335638,"version":"build-2803163510"},"reference-count":34,"publisher":"Cambridge University Press (CUP)","issue":"3","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,16]],"date-time":"2020-06-16T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1592265600000},"content-version":"unspecified","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/terms"}],"content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["J. Biosoc. Sci."],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2021,5]]},"abstract":"<jats:title>Abstract<\/jats:title><jats:p>To date, research on sex differentials in lifespan variation and life expectancy has mainly been conducted in Western countries and there is a dearth of data from South Korea. This study aimed to further the understanding of mortality transition and life expectancy in South Korea, and the associated trajectories of age-at-death variation, through an analysis of life disparity by gender. Using complete life tables for South Korea for 1970\u20132015, sex differentials (female\u2013male differences) in life disparity and life expectancy at birth were estimated, and sex differentials in life expectancy were decomposed by age and cause of death. The results showed that sex differentials in life expectancy at birth have not reduced significantly in the last 45 years (1970: 7.1 years; 2015: 6.2 years). Life disparity has reduced more rapidly for females than males, and the difference increased from \u22120.1 year in 1981 to \u22121.6 years in 2015. Sex differentials in life expectancy and life disparity in South Korea were higher during 1970\u20132015 than in several Western countries with high life expectancy. The elderly age group (60 and above) contributed 50% of the total sex difference in life expectancy at birth in 1970, and this increased to 70% in 2015. The contribution of the age group 15\u201359 years reduced significantly over the period. Decomposition of life expectancy at birth by cause revealed that diseases of the circulatory system (2.2 years), followed by external causes (1.3 years), were the most important causes of the sex differences in life expectancy at birth in 1983, and in 2015 neoplasms (2.2 years) and external causes (1.1 years) explained half of the total sex differences. There has been a significant shift in the age-specific pattern of the contribution towards each cause of death. Overall, sex differentials in life disparity and life expectancy at birth have remained significant in South Korea in the last 45 years.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1017\/s0021932020000267","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,16]],"date-time":"2020-06-16T08:28:14Z","timestamp":1592296094000},"page":"396-406","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["What has contributed to the large sex differentials in lifespan variation and life expectancy in South Korea?"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"53","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3443-4590","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Akansha","family":"Singh","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Younga","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.4054\/DemRes.2014.30.48"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref21","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.4054\/MPIDR-TR-2010-002"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref13","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0140-6736(16)32381-9"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref34","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/1010539516667779"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref14","volume-title":"Statistics on Traffic Accidents 2016.","year":"2017"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref1","first-page":"42","article-title":"Metod komponent v analize prodoljitelnosty zjizni. [The method of components in the analysis of length of life]","volume":"9","author":"Andreev","year":"1982","journal-title":"Vestnik Statistiki"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref25","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.socscimed.2008.12.034"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref31","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.socscimed.2012.04.026"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref28","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1017\/S0021932005007212"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref32","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2105\/AJPH.2009.160341"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref18","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s10654-010-9460-6"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref16","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1186\/1471-2458-9-72"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref11","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/ije\/dyi224"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref26","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1186\/1475-9276-11-71"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1787\/9789264208445-en"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref15","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.4068\/cmj.2018.54.2.90"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref24","first-page":"83","article-title":"Increasing life expectancy and convergence of age at death in India","volume":"69","author":"Singh","year":"2013","journal-title":"Genus"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref20","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"173","DOI":"10.3917\/popu.p2001.13n1.0193","article-title":"Redefining the stages of the epidemiological transition by a study of the dispersion of life spans: the case of France","volume":"13","author":"Robine","year":"2001","journal-title":"Population: An English Selection"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1728-4457.2005.00092.x"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2190\/6GUV-FBBA-W1B5-U79B"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref33","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1076\/icsp.10.1.89.14120"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1186\/1471-2458-14-560"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref9","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"159","DOI":"10.3917\/popu.p2001.13n1.0171","article-title":"Mode and dispersion of the length of life","volume":"13","author":"Kannisto","year":"2001","journal-title":"Population"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref30","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2307\/2648085"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref7","unstructured":"Horiuchi, S (1999) Epidemiological transitions in developed countries: past, present and future. Paper presented at Health and Mortality Issues of Global Concern. Proceedings of the Symposium on Health and Mortality, Brussels, 19\u201322th November 1997. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, United Nations, New York, pp. 54\u201371."},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref10","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/eurpub\/ckv128"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref22","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.4054\/DemRes.2003.8.11"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref19","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2307\/3349375"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref17","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1471-0528.2004.00535.x"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref29","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1136\/bmjopen-2011-000128"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.4054\/DemRes.2002.7.14"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref23","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s13524-011-0015-6"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref27","volume-title":"Complete Life Tables\u00a01970\u20132015 and Cause Eliminated Life Tables\u00a01995\u20132015","year":"2017"},{"key":"S0021932020000267_ref12","first-page":"1","article-title":"A development of the cause of death statistics","volume":"4","author":"Kim","year":"1999","journal-title":"Journal of the Korean Official Statistics"}],"container-title":["Journal of Biosocial Science"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/services\/aop-cambridge-core\/content\/view\/S0021932020000267","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,7]],"date-time":"2024-08-07T18:53:53Z","timestamp":1723056833000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/product\/identifier\/S0021932020000267\/type\/journal_article"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,16]]},"references-count":34,"journal-issue":{"issue":"3","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2021,5]]}},"alternative-id":["S0021932020000267"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/s0021932020000267","relation":{},"ISSN":["0021-9320","1469-7599"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0021-9320","type":"print"},{"value":"1469-7599","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,16]]}}}