1. How Do Pathways to Death Differ across Individuals in the Last Year of Life? Classifying Deaths Based on Care and Medical Care Needs in Sweden • Marcus Ebeling , Karolinska Institutet; Anna C. Meyer, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska institutet; Karin Modig , Karolinska Institutet.

2. The Contribution of Childhood Adversity to the Socioeconomic Gradient in Premature Mortality • Josephine Jackisch , Population Health Laboratory; Alyson A. Van Raalte , Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR).

3. Measuring Subnational Mortality Differentials: The Italian Case • Isabella Marinetti , Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR).

4. Different Health Systems – Different Mortality Outcomes? Regional Disparities in Avoidable Mortality in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, 1992-2019 • Michael Muehlichen , Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Germany; Markus Sauerberg , Federal Institute for Population Research; Mathias Lerch , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne (epfl-eth).

5. Premature Mortality Attributable to Socioeconomic Inequality in Belgium between 1991 and 2020 • Martina Otavova , Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL); Christel Faes, Hasselt University - Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics; Bruno Masquelier, Louvain University (UCL); Brecht Devleesschauwer, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.

6. Does Place Matter? Regional Variation in the SES-Mortality Gradient among Retired German Men • Georg Wenau, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Pavel Grigoriev , Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Germany; Sebastian Kluesener , Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Germany; Roland Rau, University of Rostock & Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Vladimir M. M. Shkolnikov, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR).