Francisco Viciana

Institute of Statistics and Cartography of Andalusia · Demographic and social statistics

We use a unique data set from Spain and we estimate life expectancy at age 50 for males and females by place of residence and place of birth. We show that, consistent with expectations regarding the influence of early conditions on adult health and mortality, the effects of place of birth on adult mortality are very strong, irrespective of place of...

Educational differences in female cohort fertility vary strongly across high-income countries and over time, but knowledge about how educational fertility differentials play out at the sub-national regional level is limited. Examining these sub-national regional patterns might improve our understanding of national patterns, as regionally varying co...

Introduction Geographical variations in cancer mortality can be explained, in part, by their association with social inequalities. The objective of our study was to analyse the spatial pattern of mortality in relation to the most common causes of cancer in the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and its possible association with social inequa...

Resumen Objetivo Analizar la tendencia de las tasas de mortalidad por edad y sexo en España e identificar si se han producido cambios tras el comienzo de la crisis económica. Método Estudio de tendencias de las tasas de mortalidad por grupos quinquenales de edad y sexo en el periodo 1981-2016, mediante regresión joint-point. Se detallan los resul...

Analyses of health and mortality disparities between today's urban and rural populations appear to be exclusively focused on vastly urbanising countries. By incorporating environmental data at census tract level and accounting for within‐area homogeneity, this work attempts to extend classic rural–urban comparisons. Geographical information is link...

Background: Previous studies on economic recessions and mortality due to cancer and other chronic diseases have yielded inconsistent findings. We investigated the trend in all-disease mortality and mortality due to several specific diseases before and during the Great Recession of 2008 in individuals who were employed in 2001, at the beginning of...

Cancer mortality data showed in Spain a pattern of differential mortality, higher in Andalusia, although in recent years a downward trend has been observed. Excess risk affected mainly to the andalusian provinces of Cadiz, Huelva and Seville. Several studies show the association between socioeconomic inequalities and cancer, increasing mortality i...

Background Reliable estimates of mortality according to socioeconomic status play a crucial role in informing the policy debate about social inequality, social cohesion, and exclusion as well as about the reform of pension systems. Linked mortality data have become a gold standard for monitoring socioeconomic differentials in survival. Several appr...

Background: Studies of the effect of macroeconomic fluctuations on mortality in different socioeconomic groups are scarce and have yielded mixed findings. We analyse mortality trends in Spain before and during the Great Recession in different socioeconomic groups, quantifying the change within each group. Methods: We did a nationwide prospective...

Introduction: The incidence of thyroid cancer (TC) is low, but rising over time. Some studies point to a possible increase in mortality rate (MR) from this cancer in certain areas of Spain and Andalusia. Our purpose was to analyse the TC mortality in Andalusia and study how it has changed in the last years. We also analysed differences by age, sex,...

Una detallada estimación de la expectativa de vida de los pensionistas en función de las características personales de los jubilados y de las prestaciones que estos reciben es fundamental para realizar unas adecuadas proyecciones de costes, y por lo tanto para poder evaluar el impacto financiero de las diferentes alternativas de reforma planteadas....

Evidence suggests that educational differences in perinatal outcomes have increased in some countries (Eastern Europe) while remained stable in others (Scandinavian countries). However, less is known about the experience of Southern Europe. This study aims to evaluate the association between maternal education and perinatal outcomes derived from bi...

Objective To describe mortality due to lung cancer in those over 24 by sex, age, birth cohort and year of death in Andalusia between 1975 and 1997. Design A descriptive population-based study. Setting Andalusia between 1975 and 1997. Participants All those residing in Andalusia during the study period. Measurements and main results The followin...

We performed a multilevel analysis (including individuals, households, census tracts, municipalities and provinces) on a 10% sample (N=230,978) from the Longitudinal Database of the Andalusian Population (LDAP). We aimed to investigate place effects on 8-year individual mortality risk. Moreover, besides calculating association (yielding odds ratios...

Fundamentos: La mejora de la salud de la población es el principal objetivo y el mayor reto del sistema sanitario y para monitorizarla se dispone de indicadores como la esperanza de vida libre de discapacidad (EVLD). El objetivo es analizar la distribución de este indicador por comunidades autónomas (CCAA) en España. Métodos: Los datos de mortalida...

Improvement of population health is the main aim and an important challenge for the health system. To monitor the population health indicators like disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) have been implemented. The purpose of this paper was to analyze the geographical distribution of DFLE according to autonomous regions in Spain. Data of mortality,...

Describir las desigualdades sociales respecto a la mortalidad en la ciudad de Sevilla en el período 1994-1998, según el nivel socioeconómico.

Background Because of the increase in life expectancy (LE) throughout the twentieth century, indicators providing information on quality of life and its distribution in distinct geographical areas are required. We describe LE and life expectancy without disability (LEWD) by age and sex and estimate the magnitude of inequalities between Andalusia an...

Background: Because of the increase in life expectancy (LE) throughout the twentieth century, indicators providing information on quality of life and its distribution in distinct geographical areas are required. We describe LE and life expectancy without disability (LEWD) by age and sex and estimate the magnitude of inequalities between Andalusia a...

Because of the increase in life expectancy (LE) throughout the twentieth century, indicators providing information on quality of life and its distribution in distinct geographical areas are required. We describe LE and life expectancy without disability (LEWD) by age and sex and estimate the magnitude of inequalities between Andalusia and Spain. Mo...

This article describes the main features of the dynamics of demographic change in the population of Spain during the twentieth century, emphasizing the most recent developments: population ageing, the establishment of a very low fertility regime and the increasing importance of foreign immigration as well as the impact which all these have on the c...

To describe social inequalities in mortality in Seville from 1994 to 1998 according to socioeconomic status. Life expectancy, crude and age-adjusted rates of total mortality as well as mortality by causes and potential years of life lost were estimated using the number of deaths and the population of Seville, aggregated by Basic Health Areas (BHA)....

To describe mortality due to lung cancer in those over 24 by sex, age, birth cohort and year of death in Andalusia between 1975 and 1997. A descriptive population-based study. Andalusia between 1975 and 1997. All those residing in Andalusia during the study period. The following indicators were calculated: gross rates, rates adjusted by age of deat...

Relevant differences regarding the temporal evolution of mortality attributed to diabetes mellitus in developed countries have been observed. This work focuses on mortality due to diabetes mellitus in Andalusia during the 1975-1994 period and causes that can explain this evolution are analyzed. Deaths caused by diabetes mellitus occurred during the...

To describe trends and geographical distribution of breast cancer mortality in Andalusian women between 1976 and 1995. Descriptive study. Andalusia. Deaths from breast cancer during the period 1976 to 1995 were obtained. The following were calculated: crude mortality rates; age-adjusted rates by the direct method, using the European population as s...

BACKGROUND: From the middle eighties, mortality in the age group 15 to 39 years in Andalusia has experienced an important increase; the object of this work is to analyse mortality in this age group, in order to discover the causes which have brought about this increase in mortality and to assess its impact on life expectancy in the eighties. METHOD...

FUNDAMENTOS: A partir de la mitad de la década de los ochenta, la mortalidad en el grupo de edad de 15 a 39 años en Andalucía ha experimentado un importante ascenso; el objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la mortalidad en este grupo de edad, para conocer cuáles han sido las causas que han ocasionado el aumento de la mortalidad y cuantificar su imp...

From the middle eighties, mortality in the age group 15 to 39 years in Andalusia has experienced an important increase; the object of this work is to analyse mortality in this age group, in order to discover the causes which have brought about this increase in mortality and to assess its impact on life expectancy in the eighties. Using the mortalit...

The study which has been carried out has meant to show from an epidemiological perspective the relationships which exist between fecundity and maternal mortality, and has underscored the need to take into account the changes which have taken place in the reproductive conduct of women when one studies the decrease in direct maternal mortality. For t...

The objective of this article is to study the changes that have occurred in the mortality pattern of women of fertile age in Spain throughout the 20th century, the significance of maternal mortality in the development of this pattern, and the other causes of death that have contributed most to such changes. Female mortality has most often been appr...

Mortality in Young People and its Impact on the Life Expectancy Development in Andalusia during the period 1980-1992 Background: From the middle eighties, mortality in the age group 15 to 39 years in Andalusia has experienced an important increase; the object of this work is to analyse mortality in this age group. in order to discover the causes wh...