Leading causes of death in England and Wales--how should we group causes?

This article examines how best to identify the leading causes of mortality in England an Wales, by using different way of grouping causes of death, based on a list developed by the World Health Organization (WHO). Four different versions of this list are compared. The leading cause of death across a...

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Published inHealth statistics quarterly no. 28; pp. 6 - 17
Main Authors Griffiths, Clare, Rooney, Cleo, Brock, Anita
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England 2005
Subjects
Age Factors
Cause of Death
England - epidemiology
Epidemiologic Methods
Female
Humans
Male
Risk Factors
Wales - epidemiology
World Health Organization
England
Wales
United Kingdom > UK
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Summary:This article examines how best to identify the leading causes of mortality in England an Wales, by using different way of grouping causes of death, based on a list developed by the World Health Organization (WHO). Four different versions of this list are compared. The leading cause of death across all age groups depends on the ways in which common diseases and external causes are aggregated or disaggregated into groups. Areas of particular debate, examined in this article, are the grouping or splitting of accidents by mechanism and cancers by site within leading cause lists. These affect which causes appear in the top ten, and their order in different age groups.
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ISSN:1465-1645