Table 1 Characteristics of people dying from Parkinson’s disease (N = 34,430)
From: Place of death of people living with Parkinson’s disease: a population-level study in 11 countries
Characteristics | Belgium | France | Italy | Spain (Andalusia) | Hungary | Czech Republic | New Zealand | USA | Canada | Mexico | South Korea |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N of deaths (proportion on all deaths in %): | 837(0.8) | 4,599(0.8) | 4,034(0.7) | 352(0.6) | 241(0.2) | 92(0.1) | 202(0.7) | 20,065(0.8) | 1,381(0.8) | 1,062(0.2) | 1,565(0.6) |
Demographic and social factors | |||||||||||
Sex: | |||||||||||
male | 52.0 | 53.2 | 50.0 | 55.4 | 58.5 | 58.7 | 52.5 | 57.6 | 56.3 | 55.7 | 43.7 |
female | 48.0 | 46.8 | 50.0 | 44.6 | 41.5 | 41.3 | 47.5 | 42.4 | 43.7 | 44.3 | 56.3 |
Age: | |||||||||||
<65 years | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 2.0 | 2.5§ | 9.8 | 4.0 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 8.3 | 7.7 |
65 to 79 years | 36.9 | 27.0 | 30.8 | 35.2 | 58.1 | 41.3 | 31.2 | 30.0 | 30.3 | 40.2 | 58.1 |
80+ years | 61.6 | 71.5 | 67.6 | 62.8 | 39.3 | 48.9 | 64.9 | 67.7 | 67.6 | 51.5 | 34.2 |
Educational attainment: | |||||||||||
no formal or elementary | 44.9* | _ | 80.6 | 54.6 | 67.2 | 37.1 | _ | 7.4 | _ | 78.4 | 67.6 |
lower secondary | 23.8 | _ | 10.9 | 28.1 | 0.4 | 48.3 | _ | 8.9 | _ | 1.6 | _ |
higher secondary | 22.4 | _ | 5.2 | 13.6 | 18.1 | 10.1 | 43.2 | 7.5 | 23.1 | ||
higher | 8.9 | _ | 3.3 | 3.8 | 14.2 | 4.5 | _ | 40.5 | _ | 12.5 | 9.3 |
Social support | |||||||||||
Marital status: | |||||||||||
unmarried | 5.9 | 8.8 | 9.5 | 8.7 | 5.8 | 1.1 | _ | 4.9 | 6.3 | 11.2 | 1.9 |
married | 48.5 | 46.4 | 45.7 | 47.7 | 51.5 | 54.3 | _ | 48.4 | 48.8 | 51.6 | 49.6 |
widowed | 40.6 | 40.8 | 44.0 | 42.4 | 37.3 | 34.8 | _ | 40.0 | 40.0 | 35.5 | 46.3 |
divorced/ separated | 5.0 | 3.9 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 5.4 | 9.8 | _ | 6.7 | 4.9 | 1.7 | 2.3 |
Residential factors | |||||||||||
Urbanization level: | |||||||||||
very strong/strong | 57.6 | 32.8 | 42.8 | 55.4 | 35.7 | _ | _ | _ | 82.8† | _ | 17.8 |
average | 25.3 | 32.2 | 19.5 | 39.5 | 37.3 | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | 20.9 |
weak/rural | 17.1 | 35.0 | 37.6 | 5.1 | 27.0 | _ | _ | _ | 16.7† | _ | 61.3 |
Health care system factors | |||||||||||
Hospital beds/1000 inhabitants | 5.2 | 6.9 | 3.4 | 2.7 | 7.1‡ | 6.0‡ | 3.1 | 2.7 | 3.0 | 0.3 | 8.3‡ |
LTC-beds/1000 inhabitants age 65+ | 70.3 | 58.4 | 34.6 | 17.7 | 32.7‡ | 28.9‡ | 71.6 | 41.5 | 58.1 | 0.0 | 17.5‡ |