Abstract
Having assessed the overall, as well as cause-specific, mortality trends in East and West Germany and the German federal states, this chapter explores small-area mortality differentials in Germany and their determinants. First, the data and methods used in this chapter are described. Life expectancy variation across the 438 German districts is then described, and the changes in the spatial patterning and dispersion over time are investigated (Sect. 4.4). Next, the underlying cause-of-death structures are analyzed (Sect. 4.5). Districts with similar mortality patterns are then aggregated into functional regions, and the life expectancy and cause-specific mortality patterns of these regions are analyzed (Sects. 4.6 and 4.7). Finally, determinants of regional life expectancy patterns and trends are examined by means of a pooled cross-sectional time series analysis (Sect. 4.8).
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