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June 22, 2022
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Live and let live: understanding the temporal drivers and spillovers of life expectancy in Europe for public planning

Publicated to:European Journal Of Health Economics. 24 (3): NULL-347 - 2023-04-01 24(3), DOI: 10.1007/s10198-022-01469-3

Authors: Gracia-de-Renteria, Pilar; Ferrer-Perez, Hugo; Isabel Sanjuan, Ana; Philippidis, George

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Agrifood Res & Technol Ctr Aragon CITA, Agrifood Econ Unit, Avda Montanana 930, Zaragoza 50059, Spain - Author
Aragonese Agcy Res & Dev ARAID, Zaragoza, Spain - Author
Grupo de investigación "Economía Agroalimentaria y de los Recursos Naturales". Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón - Author
Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón (IA2). Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón - Author
Unidad Transversal de Economía Agroalimentaria. Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón - Author
Univ Zaragoza, AgriFood Inst Aragon IA2 CITA, Miguel Servet St 177, Zaragoza 50013, Spain - Author
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Abstract

The European continent has one of the longest life expectancies in the world, but still faces a significant challenge to meet the health targets set by the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations for 2030. To improve the understanding of the rationale that guides health outcomes in Europe, this study assesses the direction and magnitude effects of the drivers that contribute to explain life expectancy at birth across 30 European countries for the period 2008-2018 at macro-level. For this purpose, an aggregated health production function is used allowing for spatial effects. The results indicate that an increase in the income level, health expenditure, trade openness, education attainment, or urbanisation might lead to an increase in life expectancy at birth, whereas calories intake or quantity of air pollutants have a negative impact on this health indicator. This implies that health policies should look beyond economic factors and focus also on social and environmental drivers. The results also indicate the existence of significant spillover effects, highlighting the need for coordinated European policies that account for the synergies between countries. Finally, a foresight analysis is conducted to obtain projections for 2030 under different socioeconomic pathways. Results reveal significant differences on longevity projections depending on the adoption, or not, of a more sustainable model of human development and provides valuable insight on the need for anticipatory planning measures to make longer life-spans compatible with the maintenance of the welfare state.

Keywords

europehealth production functionlife expectancyspatial panel modelAir-pollutionChinaDesarrollo sostenibleDeterminantsDeveloping countriesEducationEducational statusEuropeHealthHealth production functionHumansInfant, newbornLevelLife expectancyLongevityMortalitySocioeconomic factorsSpatial panel modelSustainable development

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal European Journal Of Health Economics due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2023, it was in position 113/600, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Economics.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 1.45. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Weighted Average of Normalized Impact by the Scopus agency: 1.62 (source consulted: FECYT Feb 2024)
  • Field Citation Ratio (FCR) from Dimensions: 3.66 (source consulted: Dimensions Jul 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-07-16, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 5
  • Scopus: 6
  • Europe PMC: 4

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-16:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 38.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 49 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 34.5.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 3 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions in news outlets: 4 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Gracia de Rentería, María Pilar) and Last Author (Philippidis, George).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Gracia de Rentería, María Pilar.