According to a study, life expectancy in a violent country could be reduced by 14 years.

Life expectancy in violent countries is less predictable.life expectancy young people may be 14 years shorter than others state peacefulaccording to a study by an international team led by the University of Oxford, in which Tim Riffe, an Ikerbask researcher from the Spanish University of the Basque Country, participated.

This study, published in the prestigious journal Sciences Advances, confirms that the impact violence V mortality it goes beyond the reduction of lives, because living in a cruel country, citizens also have more insecurity in life.

To reach these conclusions, the researchers used mortality data from 162 countries and the Inner Peace Index between 2008 and 2017.

So they noticed that the most violent countries they are also the people with the most insecurities in life.

In the case of the Middle East, this deaths associated with conflicts at an early age, those that most contribute to the perception of high uncertainty.

IN Latin America noted a similar pattern in homicides and interpersonal violence.

On the other hand, they concluded that between 2008 and 2017, lifetime uncertainty was “surprisingly low” in most northern and southern European countries.

The study also confirms that “cycles poverty, insecurity And violence reinforce pre-existing structural patterns of women’s disadvantage.”

Thus, the researchers argue that in some countries Latin America the number of murders of women has increased in recent decades, and exposure to a hostile environment has “social and health implications, especially for children and women.”

“Although men are the main direct victims violencewomen are more likely to experience its consequences in violent settings,” they argue.

In general, living in a violent society “creates vulnerability and insecurityand this, in turn, can lead to more aggressive behavior,” argues the study, which “estimates a gap of about 14 years in life expectancy between the least and most violent countries.”

Riffe believes it is important to show in a “broad sense” what the consequences of violence are for the health of the population so that they can deliberate a public health problem and therefore preventive programs can be developed.

“Violence as a cause of death is, in principle, easier to prevent than other serious causes such as cancer, and the benefits are both immediate and long-term,” he says.

The study is based on the use of massive data and partly on estimates mortality modeled by the Global Burden of Disease project, as many of the included populations do not have direct demographic information on mortality, Ikerbusk elaborates in a press release.

EFE