There are about 1·3 billion people with disability globally, and their higher mortality rates mean that they are dying about 14 years earlier than people without disability.1, 2 In this issue of The Lancet Public Health, Yi Yang and colleagues’ study³ adds to this literature. Using large-scale longitudinal data from 15 million Australians, they showed that people with disability have high inequalities—whether measured on an absolute or relative scale and across different causes of death. Overall, mortality rates were about 3·7-times higher for men with disability and about 4·6-times higher for women with disability than their non-disabled peers. This Article³ adds to the growing, unequivocal evidence on the relationship between mortality and disability. It also highlights three key questions that need to be addressed before public health actors start to take this issue seriously.

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缩小残疾人的死亡率差距


全球约有 13 亿残疾人，他们较高的死亡率意味着他们比非残疾人早死约 14 年。1， 2 在本期《柳叶刀公共卫生》中，Yi Yang 及其同事的研究³ 对这些文献进行了补充。他们使用来自 1500 万澳大利亚人的大规模纵向数据表明，无论是从绝对还是相对尺度以及不同的死亡原因来看，残疾人都存在高度不平等。总体而言，与非残疾同龄人相比，残疾男性的死亡率大约高 3·7 倍，残疾女性的死亡率大约高 4·6 倍。第³ 条增加了关于死亡率和残疾之间关系的越来越多的明确证据。它还强调了在公共卫生参与者开始认真对待这个问题之前需要解决的三个关键问题。