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El Centro Centroamericano de Población (CCP) es un centro de investigaciones de la Universidad de Costa Rica, establecido inicialmente en 1993 como un Programa adscrito a la Escuela de Estadística. El CCP tiene un área de acción multidisciplinaria en la investigación, capacitación y diseminación de información en población con un ámbito Centroamericano.

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San Pedro de Montes de Oca.
Centro Centroamericano de Población,
Universidad de Costa Rica
San José 2060, Costa Rica.

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    Insurance and other socioeconomic determinants of elderly longevity in a Costa Rican panel
    (Journal of Biosocial Science: 37(6), 2005) Rosero Bixby, Luis; Dow, William H.; Laclé Murray, Adriana
    Official figures show that life expectancy in Costa Rica is longer than in the United States (US), in spite of the fact that per capita health expenditure is only one-tenth that of the US. To check whether this is for real and to explore some of its determinants, 900 Costa Ricans aged 60+ were followed from 1984 to 2001. Follow-up household visits were made, deaths were tracked in the national death registry, and survival status in the voting registry was double-checked. In addition, the survivors were contacted in 2002. Two-thirds of the panel had died by December 2001. Kaplan—Meier curves, life tables and Cox regression were used to analyse the panel's survival. Mortality in the panel was slightly higher than the Costa Rican average and similar to that in the US, confirming the exceptional longevity of Costa Ricans. Survival was substantially lower among unmarried men and individuals with limited autonomy at the beginning of the study. The effect of socioeconomic status is weak. Insurance effects seem to be confounded by selection biases.
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    Exploring why Costa Rica outperforms the United States in life expectancy: a tale of two inequality gradients
    (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS); Volumen 113, Número 5, 2016) Rosero Bixby, Luis; Dow, William H.
    Mortality in the United States is 18% higher than in Costa Rica among adult men and 10% higher among middle-aged women, despite the several times higher income and health expenditures of the United States. This comparison simultaneously shows the potential for substantially lowering mortality in other middle-income countries and highlights the United States’ poor health performance. The United States’ underperformance is strongly linked to its much steeper socioeconomic (SES) gradients in health. Although the highest SES quartile in the United States has better mortality than the highest quartile in Costa Rica, US mortality in its lowest quartile is markedly worse than in Costa Rica’s lowest quartile, providing powerful evidence that the US health inequality patterns are not inevitable. High SES-mortality gradients in the United States are apparent in all broad cause-of-death groups, but Costa Rica’s overall mortality advantage can be explained largely by two causes of death: lung cancer and heart disease. Lung cancer mortality in the United States is four times higher among men and six times higher among women compared with Costa Rica. Mortality by heart disease is 54% and 12% higher in the United States than in Costa Rica for men and women, respectively. SES gradients for heart disease and diabetes mortality are also much steeper in the United States. These patterns may be partly explained by much steeper SES gradients in the United States compared with Costa Rica for behavioral and medical risk factors such as smoking, obesity, lack of health insurance, and uncontrolled dysglycemia and hypertension.

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