I am a formal demographer researching the methodological challenges in accurately estimating health and mortality differentials. My research output has focused on performing sensitivity analysis of healthy life expectancy indicators and testing how different measurement and estimation methods can impact health outcomes, specifically regarding gender gaps in mortality and health. I also work on mathematical demography and alternative indicators of ageing. In 2018, I joined the Health and Longevity research group headed by Dr. Marc Luy at the Vienna Institute of Demography as a research scientist. In the framework of the ERC project “Levels and Trends of Health Expectancy: Understanding its Measurement and Estimation Sensitivity’’, where I mainly performed sensitivity analysis of healthy life expectancy indicators regarding different measurement and estimation methods. As of 2024, I am a professor of Demography at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.
di Lego, V. et al. (2024). Mismatches in Health: A Global Analysis of Discrepancies Between Self-Reported and Tested Mobility and Cognition. Comparative Population Studies. 49, (Aug. 2024). https://doi.org/10.12765/CPoS-2024-08
di Lego V. (2023) Uncovering the gender health data gap. Cad. Saúde Pública 39 (7). https://doi.org/10.1590/0102-311XEN065423
Aburto JM†, di Lego V†, Riffe T†, Kashyap R, van Raalte A, Torrisi O. (2023) A global assessment of the impact of violence on lifetime uncertainty. Science Advances Feb 3;9(5):eadd9038. doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.add9038.† These authors contributed equally to this work.
di Lego, V. and Sauerberg, M. (2023) The Sensitivity of the Healthy Life Years Indicator: Approaches for Dealing with Age-Specific Prevalence Data. Comparative Population Studies. 48, (Apr. 2023). doi: https://doi.org/10.12765/CPoS-2023-06.
di Lego, V., Sanchez-Romero, M., & Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A. (2022). The impact of COVID-19 vaccines on the Case Fatality Rate: The importance of monitoring breakthrough infections. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2022.03.059
di Lego, V. (2021) Health Expectancy Indicators: What do they Measure?. Cad Saúde Colet, 2021;29 (esp.): 115-129. doi: https://doi.org/10.1590/1414-462X202199010376
di Lego, V; Lazarevič, P; Luy, M: (2019) The Male-Female Health-Mortality Paradox, in: Gu, Danan; Dupre, Matthew E. (eds.): Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging, Dordrecht et al., Springer, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_798-2
di Lego, V.; Di Giulio, P.; Luy, M.(2020). Gender differences in healthy and unhealthy life years, in: Jagger, C.; Crimmins, E.; Saito, Y.; De Carvalho Yokota, R.; Van Oyen H.; Robine, J.-M. (eds.): International Handbook of Health Expectancies, Cham, Springer: 151-172] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-37668-0_11
Luy, M; Di Giulio, P; di Lego, V; Lazarevič, P; Sauerberg, M, (2019). Life expectancy: frequently used, but hardly understood, Gerontology 66(1): 95-104 (published online: 08.08.2019.doi: https://doi.org/10.1159/000500955
di Lego V., Turra C., Cesar C. (2017). Mortality selection among adults in Brazil: The survival advantage of Air Force officers. Demographic Research (37) 41:1339–1350. doi: https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2017.37.41