Octavio Bramajo

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston | UTMB · Sealy Center on Aging

Este artículo analiza las desigualdades sociales en la salud y la mortalidad en Argentina a nivel individual, tomando en cuenta el ingreso previsional, la región de residencia, el sexo y la edad de los adultos mayores de 65 años. Para ello se analizaron registros de pagos de beneficios de la Administración Nacional de la Seguridad Social (ANSES), q...

This article describes the differential mortality of Argentina’s disability pension beneficiaries during the 2015–16 period, based on National Social Security Administration ( Administración Nacional de la Seguridad Social – ANSES) payment records. It compares data for those with an assessed disability with overall population data, as well as with...

This study presents estimates of life expectancy free of anxiety/depression (a health expectancy) for the adult population in Argentina and observes its evolution during the 2005-2018 period. Given that life expectancy and health expectancy are strongly correlated indicators, we decomposed the change of the latter over time to establish not only wh...

Late-life depression is a condition that affects an ever-growing share of the population in ageing societies. While depression prevalence varies across countries for a myriad of reasons, generational factors, expressed in the shared experience of birth cohorts, may also play a part in such differentials. This paper describes the presence of age, pe...

INTRODUCTION: This study aimed to explore the series of possible heterogeneities that could be found beneath the apparent similarity in COVID-19 mortality indicators (such as crude death rates or deaths per million inhabitants) in Argentina and Colombia. METHODS: We performed a study using aggregate data of the epidemiological surveillance daily re...

Smoking among Spanish women has increased during the last 50 years and is considered by some authors a modern epidemic. However, mortality risk by cohorts may differ at a regional level, given that health inequalities (and the determinants of smoking and its consequences) are regionally patterned. We applied an Age-Period-Cohort model to identify b...

Assessments of countries’ longevity and its variability around the globe often rely on life expectancy (LE) but tend not to differentiate between the years spent in “good” or “less‐than‐good” health. We explore how the evolution of the healthy and unhealthy components of LE has shaped the composition of LE within countries, and the extent of LE ine...

Background and Objectives Ageism is defined as stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination based on age. Perceived age discrimination (e.g., the behavioral component of ageism) is highly prevalent in society, reported by one in three people in Europe. The present study examined variations in perceived age discrimination in the second half of life. W...

Two important sources of inequality in mortality are regional variation and individuals' socioeconomic status. While many studies have investigated the effect that each of these two factors might have had on mortality levels separately, they have rarely been studied simultaneously. Using linked data from the Spanish National Institute of Statistics...

Este trabajo tiene como objetivo estimar la esperanza de vida en salud (EVS) y la esperanza de vida en mala salud (EVMS), según diversos indicadores (discapacidades de la vida diaria, enfermedades crónicas y autopercepción de salud) en Argentina para el período 2005 a 2018. Se calculó la EVS y EVMS por medio del método de Sullivan (1971). Se utiliz...

In 1950, life expectancy at birth in Spain was 64.2 years for women and 59.3 years for men. Thereafter and to the present day, this life expectancy has risen practically uninterruptedly to reach, in 2020, 85.1 and 79.6 years, respectively. The case of Spain is not the only one, since the inhabitants of most countries in the world are living to ages...

La esperanza de vida al nacer en España en el año 1950 era de 64.2 y 59.3 años para mujeres y hombres. Desde entonces hasta ahora, dicha esperanza de vida ha aumentado de forma prácticamente ininterrumpida hasta llegar a los 85.1 y 79.6 años en 2020, respectivamente. El caso de España no es el único, puesto que los habitantes de la mayoría de paíse...

L’esperança de vida en néixer a Espanya, l’any 1950 era de 64.2 i 59.3 anys per a dones i homes. D’aleshores ençà, l’esperança de vida ha augmentat de forma pràcticament ininterrompuda fins arribar als 85.1 i 79.6 anys el 2020, respectivament. El cas d’Espanya no és l’únic, atès que els habitants de la majoria de països del món sobreviuen fins a un...

INTRODUCCIÓN : El envejecimiento poblacional probablemente es el fenómeno demográfico más importante del siglo XXI. Sin embargo, en la dinámica demográfica, aún persisten ciertas disparidades en el tiempo que viven las personas de diferente edad, sexo y clase social. Este trabajo apuntó a analizar y describir la mortalidad diferencial de los adulto...

ABSTRACT. INTRODUCTION: Population ageing is probably the most important demographic phenomenon of the 21st century. However, in demographic dynamics, certain disparities still persist in the time that people of different age, sex and social class live. The objective of this study was to analyze and describe differential mortality of adults aged 65...

The search for accurate indicators to compare the pandemic impact between countries is still a challenge. The crude death rate, case fatality rate by country and sex, standardized fatality rate, and standardized death rate were calculated using data from Argentina and Colombia countries. We show that even when frequently used indicator as deaths pe...

The following paper presents temporary estimations of CFR (the ratio between deaths and infected positive cases) attributed to COVID-19 for two provinces in Argentina (Jujuy and Buenos Aires Province), using public data provided by the Argentine Ministry of Health. In order to make comparisons between jurisdictions, we applied a series of explorato...

Maestría en Demografía Social. Universidad Nacional de Luján. Tesis para optar por el título de Magíster en Demografía Social. Título: "Mortalidad diferencial de los adultos mayores en Argentina (2015-2016). El rol del ingreso previsional y otros factores."

Determinantes de la pobreza en hogares con adultos mayores Gaiada, Julio César Bramajo, Octavio Nicolás ANALES | ASOCIACION ARGENTINA DE ECONOMIA POLITICA

Tradicionalmente la literatura demográfica asoció un mejor nivel socioeconómico con una menor mortalidad. Sin embargo, una serie de estudios en los últimos años ha percibido el surgimiento de un fenómeno muy inusual. En el más reciente de ellos, la mortalidad de los adultos mayores es mayor entre aquellos quienes a priori poseen una mejor posición...

Este trabajo es de índole exploratoria-descriptiva: se busca analizar como es la mortalidad diferencial de los adultos mayores retirados para el período 2015-2016 (de Julio a Junio del año siguiente) en función de un indicador poco habitual, como es el tipo de prestación previsional percibida. Para ello se emplearán fuentes de datos también inusual...