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Twentieth century mortality trends in England and Wales
Author(s)	Clare Griffiths, Anita Brock
Journal title	Health Statistics Quarterly, no 18, Summer 2003
Pages	pp 5-17
Keywords	Death rate [statistics] ; Longitudinal surveys.
Annotation	Patterns of mortality by cause of death changed throughout the 20th century. This article examines trends in mortality, using data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Twentieth Century Mortality CD-ROM. The analyses published in the Health of Adult Britain has been updated - changes in all-cause mortality rates and rates for broad cause groups. These have been updated with new population estimates for 1982-2000, which take into account the results of the 2001 Census, and the analyses have been brought up to the end of the century. This article covers all of the years in which the first to the ninth revisions of the International Classification of Diseases were in use (currently the tenth revision is in use). There are also extended analyses of specific diseases, e.g. tuberculosis, influenza, heart disease and stroke, and cancer which were major causes of death either at the beginning or the end of the century; diseases which had relatively comparable definitions over time; and on new analyses of ill-defined causes of mortality, which are currently of particular interest. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-030612201 A
Classmark	S5: 3J
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