Iñaki Permanyer and Júlia Almeida Calazans

Policymakers and scholars are increasingly interested in monitoring and curbing health inequalities. Much is known about the main causes of death and how mortality has been shifting from most deaths around the world being caused by communicable diseases towards most being due to non-communicable causes.

However, less is known about the heterogeneity in these causes of death. Are people in some countries dying from an increasingly varied set of causes? Measuring how ‘similar’ or ‘dissimilar’ the different causes of death are can help us understand global health inequalities and patterns of mortality.

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