Using lifespan variation to better understand long-term trends in health inequalities in Scotland and Europe

**Authors:** David Walsh (1), Andreas Hoehn (2,3), Ruth Dundas (2), Gerry McCartney (4), Bruce Whyte (1)


**Affiliations:**
1. School of Health & Wellbeing, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.
2. MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Scotland
3. School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland
4. School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.


**About:** This repository contains the reproducibility pack for the EJPH Paper. "Using lifespan variation to better understand long-term trends in health inequalities in Scotland and Europe". The reproducibility pack contains all code, queried data, intermediate and final results to aligned to the main and supplementary results. We have split the reproducibility pack to provide two separate entities; one for the query and analysis of Human Mortality Database (HMD) data (part 1), and one for the area-level analyses for Scotland (part 2). For the query of HMD data, it is required to create an account with the platform.

**Funding:** AH’s work is supported by the UK Prevention Research Partnership (MR/S037578/2), which is funded by the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, Health and Social Care Research and Development Division (Welsh Government), Medical Research Council, National Institute for Health Research, Natural Environment Research Council, Public Health Agency (Northern Ireland), The Health Foundation and Wellcome. Further to this, AH was supported by the Chief Scientist Office (grant number: SPHSU20) and the Medical Research Council (grant number: MC_UU_00022/5). RD was supported by the Chief Scientist Office (SPHSU17) and the Medical Research Council (MC_UU_00022/2).