title: [Educational inequalities in mortality and survival of women and men in the Americas, 1990-2010].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Analyze magnitude and trends in educational inequality in mortality and survival of women and men in countries of the Americas.
  
  
  METHODS
  Gap and gradient metrics were used to calculate inequality between countries in adult mortality, average age of death, life expectancy, and healthy life expectancy, according to educational level in men and women for 1990 and 2010.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Between 1990 and 2010, the average number of years of education increased from 8 to 10 with no difference between sexes. Adult mortality (15-59 years) did not change: 1.9 per 1 000 women and 3.7 per 1 000 men. The slope index of inequality (SII) increased from -1.0 to -2.0 per 1 000 women and from -1.2 to -4.4 per 1 000 men. Life expectancy increased from 75.6 to 78.7 years in women and from 68.9 to 72.4 in men; absolute inequality decreased from 7.8 to 7.2 years in women and increased from 7.2 to 9.2 years in men. Healthy life expectancy increased from 63.7 to 65.9 years in women and from 59.5 to 62.5 years in men; the SII declined from 6.9 to 5.8 years in women and increased from 6.9 to 7.8 years in men.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In the countries of the Americas, men are at greater risk of dying, die earlier, and live fewer disease- and disability-free years than women; educational level is a determinant of mortality and survival in both sexes, and educational inequalities are more pronounced and increasing among men, and are disproportionately concentrated in the most socially disadvantaged populations.
authors.affiliation: Organización Panamericana de la Salud, Washington, D.C., Estados Unidos de América, mihaeberer@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Mariana
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Haeberer
authors.affiliation: Organización Panamericana de la Salud, Washington, D.C., Estados Unidos de América, mihaeberer@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Isabel
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Noguer
authors.affiliation: Programa Especial de Desarrollo Sostenible y Equidad en Salud, Organización Panamericana de la Salud, Organización Panamericana de la Salud, Washington, D.C., Estados Unidos de América.
authors.forename: Oscar J
authors.initials: OJ
authors.lastname: Mújica
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000569:Americas / Q000453:epidemiology; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008017:Life Expectancy; D008297:Male; D008571:Men; D008875:Middle Aged; D009026:Mortality / Q000639:trends; D064890:Social Determinants of Health; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D035862:Vulnerable Populations; D014930:Women