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José Manuel Aburto

PhD
Marie-Curie fellow

José Manuel joined Oxford to hold the Newton International and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships. Since 2022, he is also the Brass Blacker Associate Professor of Demography at LSHTM. He received his MA in Demography at El Colegio de México, and PhD in Demography at the University of Southern Denmark and Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in 2020.

The overarching aim of José's research is to produce novel insights on population health inequalities and better understand the link between health inequalities and social determinants of health through core demographic concepts.

Theoretically and methodologically, José's work follows two main strands. First, he develops and advances formal demographic techniques to measure inequalities in the length of life, and uses this perspective to generate new ways of analysing population health. Second, through these and other methodological tools, he examines the structural and social determinants of population health inequalities. His work so far has examined how structural shocks like violence, and more recently the COVID-19 pandemic, affect population health inequalities around the globe.

 

Publications

Thursday, 04 April 2024
Baudisch, A. and Aburto, J. (2024) “How lifespan and life years lost equate to unity”, Demographic Research, 50, pp. 643–666.
José Manuel Aburto
Tuesday, 27 June 2023
Zazueta-Borboa, J.-D. et al. (2023) “Contributions of age groups and causes of death to the sex gap in lifespan variation in Europe”, Population Studies, 77(3), pp. 475–496.
José Manuel Aburto
Friday, 02 June 2023
Aburto, J. and Vigezzi, S. (2023) “The gap between US and best practice life expectancy is increasing”, American Journal of Public Health, 113(9), pp. 967–969.
José Manuel Aburto
Wednesday, 26 April 2023
Zazueta-Borboa, J. et al. (2023) “Reversals in past long-term trends in educational inequalities in life expectancy for selected European countries”, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 77(7).
José Manuel Aburto
Friday, 03 February 2023
Aburto, J. et al. (2023) “A global assessment of the impact of violence on lifetime uncertainty”, Science Advances, 9(5).
José Manuel Aburto
Saturday, 31 December 2022
Nigri, A. et al. (2022) “Evaluation of age-specific causes of death in the context of the Italian longevity transition”, Scientific reports, 12(1).
José Manuel Aburto
Monday, 17 October 2022
Schöley, J. et al. (2022) “Life expectancy changes since COVID-19”, Nature Human Behaviour, 6, pp. 1649–1659.
José Manuel Aburto
Thursday, 29 September 2022
Antonio-Villa, N. et al. (2022) “Socio-demographic inequalities and excess non-COVID-19 mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic: a data-driven analysis of 1 069 174 death certificates in Mexico”, International Journal of Epidemiology, 51(6), pp. 1711–1721.
José Manuel Aburto
Tuesday, 06 September 2022
Aburto, J. et al. (2022) “Drewnowski’s index to measure lifespan variation: revisiting the Gini coefficient of the life table”, Theoretical Population Biology, 148, pp. 1–10.
José Manuel Aburto
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Aburto, J. et al. (2022) “Significant impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on race/ethnic differences in US mortality”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(35).
José Manuel Aburto
Friday, 19 August 2022
Mena, G. and Aburto, J. (2022) “Unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 on life expectancy across urban areas in Chile: a cross-sectional demographic study”, BMJ Open, 12(8).
José Manuel Aburto
Sunday, 31 July 2022
Wallace, M. et al. (2022) “Immigration, mortality, and national life expectancy in the Nordic region, 1990–2019”, SSM - Population Health, 19.
José Manuel Aburto
Saturday, 16 July 2022
Nigri, A., Levantesi, S. and Aburto, J. (2022) “Leveraging deep neural networks to estimate age-specific mortality from life expectancy at birth”, Demographic Research, 47, pp. 199–232.
José Manuel Aburto
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
Schöley, J. et al. (2022) “Bounce backs amid continued losses: Life expectancy changes since COVID-19”, medRxiv.
José Manuel Aburto
Thursday, 26 May 2022
Sudharsanan, N. et al. (2022) “Large variation in the epidemiological transition across countries: is it still valuable as a mortality theory?”, International Journal of Epidemiology, 51(4), pp. 1057–1061.
José Manuel Aburto
Friday, 20 May 2022
Aburto, J. et al. (2022) “A global assessment of the impact of violence on lifetime uncertainty”, SocArXiv.
José Manuel Aburto
Tuesday, 10 May 2022
Shi, J. et al. (2022) “A distributional approach to measuring lifespan stratification”, Population Studies, 77(1), pp. 15–33.
José Manuel Aburto
Tuesday, 01 March 2022
Vigezzi, S. et al. (2022) “Divergent trends in lifespan variation during mortality crises”, Demographic Research, 46, pp. 291–336.
José Manuel Aburto
Friday, 28 January 2022
Aburto, J. (2022) “Life expectancy declines in Russia during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020”, International Journal of Epidemiology, 51(5), pp. 1695–1697.
José Manuel Aburto
Sunday, 26 September 2021
Aburto, J. et al. (2021) “Quantifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through life-expectancy losses: a population-level study of 29 countries.”, International journal of epidemiology [Preprint].
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Violence and COVID-19 drive decline in Mexico’s life expectancy

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José Manuel Aburto

PhD
Marie-Curie fellow
This is the alt text
Email
jose-manuel.aburto@demography.ox.ac.uk
Links
Twitter
Google Scholar

José Manuel joined Oxford to hold the Newton International and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships. Since 2022, he is also the Brass Blacker Associate Professor of Demography at LSHTM. He received his MA in Demography at El Colegio de México, and PhD in Demography at the University of Southern Denmark and Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in 2020.

The overarching aim of José's research is to produce novel insights on population health inequalities and better understand the link between health inequalities and social determinants of health through core demographic concepts.

Theoretically and methodologically, José's work follows two main strands. First, he develops and advances formal demographic techniques to measure inequalities in the length of life, and uses this perspective to generate new ways of analysing population health. Second, through these and other methodological tools, he examines the structural and social determinants of population health inequalities. His work so far has examined how structural shocks like violence, and more recently the COVID-19 pandemic, affect population health inequalities around the globe.

 

Publications

Thursday, 04 April 2024
Baudisch, A. and Aburto, J. (2024) “How lifespan and life years lost equate to unity”, Demographic Research, 50, pp. 643–666.
José Manuel Aburto
Tuesday, 27 June 2023
Zazueta-Borboa, J.-D. et al. (2023) “Contributions of age groups and causes of death to the sex gap in lifespan variation in Europe”, Population Studies, 77(3), pp. 475–496.
José Manuel Aburto
Friday, 02 June 2023
Aburto, J. and Vigezzi, S. (2023) “The gap between US and best practice life expectancy is increasing”, American Journal of Public Health, 113(9), pp. 967–969.
José Manuel Aburto
Wednesday, 26 April 2023
Zazueta-Borboa, J. et al. (2023) “Reversals in past long-term trends in educational inequalities in life expectancy for selected European countries”, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 77(7).
José Manuel Aburto
Friday, 03 February 2023
Aburto, J. et al. (2023) “A global assessment of the impact of violence on lifetime uncertainty”, Science Advances, 9(5).
José Manuel Aburto
Saturday, 31 December 2022
Nigri, A. et al. (2022) “Evaluation of age-specific causes of death in the context of the Italian longevity transition”, Scientific reports, 12(1).
José Manuel Aburto
Monday, 17 October 2022
Schöley, J. et al. (2022) “Life expectancy changes since COVID-19”, Nature Human Behaviour, 6, pp. 1649–1659.
José Manuel Aburto
Thursday, 29 September 2022
Antonio-Villa, N. et al. (2022) “Socio-demographic inequalities and excess non-COVID-19 mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic: a data-driven analysis of 1 069 174 death certificates in Mexico”, International Journal of Epidemiology, 51(6), pp. 1711–1721.
José Manuel Aburto
Tuesday, 06 September 2022
Aburto, J. et al. (2022) “Drewnowski’s index to measure lifespan variation: revisiting the Gini coefficient of the life table”, Theoretical Population Biology, 148, pp. 1–10.
José Manuel Aburto
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Aburto, J. et al. (2022) “Significant impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on race/ethnic differences in US mortality”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(35).
José Manuel Aburto
Friday, 19 August 2022
Mena, G. and Aburto, J. (2022) “Unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 on life expectancy across urban areas in Chile: a cross-sectional demographic study”, BMJ Open, 12(8).
José Manuel Aburto
Sunday, 31 July 2022
Wallace, M. et al. (2022) “Immigration, mortality, and national life expectancy in the Nordic region, 1990–2019”, SSM - Population Health, 19.
José Manuel Aburto
Saturday, 16 July 2022
Nigri, A., Levantesi, S. and Aburto, J. (2022) “Leveraging deep neural networks to estimate age-specific mortality from life expectancy at birth”, Demographic Research, 47, pp. 199–232.
José Manuel Aburto
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
Schöley, J. et al. (2022) “Bounce backs amid continued losses: Life expectancy changes since COVID-19”, medRxiv.
José Manuel Aburto
Thursday, 26 May 2022
Sudharsanan, N. et al. (2022) “Large variation in the epidemiological transition across countries: is it still valuable as a mortality theory?”, International Journal of Epidemiology, 51(4), pp. 1057–1061.
José Manuel Aburto
Friday, 20 May 2022
Aburto, J. et al. (2022) “A global assessment of the impact of violence on lifetime uncertainty”, SocArXiv.
José Manuel Aburto
Tuesday, 10 May 2022
Shi, J. et al. (2022) “A distributional approach to measuring lifespan stratification”, Population Studies, 77(1), pp. 15–33.
José Manuel Aburto
Tuesday, 01 March 2022
Vigezzi, S. et al. (2022) “Divergent trends in lifespan variation during mortality crises”, Demographic Research, 46, pp. 291–336.
José Manuel Aburto
Friday, 28 January 2022
Aburto, J. (2022) “Life expectancy declines in Russia during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020”, International Journal of Epidemiology, 51(5), pp. 1695–1697.
José Manuel Aburto
Sunday, 26 September 2021
Aburto, J. et al. (2021) “Quantifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through life-expectancy losses: a population-level study of 29 countries.”, International journal of epidemiology [Preprint].
José Manuel Aburto
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Recent

news
16 Apr 2025

Violence and COVID-19 drive decline in Mexico’s life expectancy

news
20 Dec 2024

New study reveals the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on other causes of death

news
16 Oct 2024

Global inequities in maternal health risks across a woman’s life

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