[EQ] Health statistics - Atlas on mortality in the European Union

Health statistics – Atlas on mortality in the European Union

Eurostat is the Statistical Office of the European Communities - 2009

Available online as PDF [215p.] at:
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-30-08-357/EN/KS-30-08-357-EN.PDF

“…This Atlas describes the mortality of the regions of the Member States of the European Union, Candidate countries (except Turkey) as well as EEA/EFTA countries.

They describe the European mortality by age and gender, by main causes of death and by 272 European regions. Levels of mortality indicate general levels of ill health, while causes of death provide useful information for an understanding of these differences in mortality levels. Different risk factors such as biological factors, lifestyle, smoking behaviour, alcohol consumption, and cultural or economic circumstances may cause the different mortality profiles. Differences in mortality across countries and regions indicate potentials for public health interventions in order to eliminate and control avoidable mortality in the future….”

Table of contents

1. Introduction

2. Methodology

3. Overall mortality

4. ‘Premature’ and older age mortality

5. Life expectancies

6. Infectious and parasitic diseases

7. Tuberculosis

8. AIDS (HIV disease)

9. All malignant neoplasms

10. Malignant neoplasms of larynx and trachea/bronchus/lung

11. Malignant neoplasms of colon, rectum and anus

12. Malignant neoplasms of breast (women)

13. Malignant neoplasms of cervix uteri and other parts of uterus (women)

14. Malignant neoplasms of prostate (men)

15. Diseases of the circulatory system

16. Ischaemic heart diseases

17. Cerebrovascular diseases

18. Pneumonia and influenza

19. External causes of injury and poisoning
20. Transport accidents

21. Suicide and intentional self-harm

22. Alcohol related causes of death

23. Typologies of mortality based on factor analysis

ANNEXES

Who dies of what in Europe before the age of 65 

High life expectancy but large differences in mortality  

 

EUROSTAT - Population and social conditions -  Statistics in focus - 2009

Elodie Cayotte, Hartmut Buchow
           

Available online at:
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-SF-09-067/EN/KS-SF-09-067-EN.PDF

 

“…..An atlas on mortality in the European Union has just been published. This Statistics in Focus highlights important causes of avoidable mortality below age 65, namely ischaemic heart disease, lung cancer, alcohol-related mortality, suicide, transport accidents, cervical cancer and AIDS.

These causes of death are described at NUTS 2 level in 2002-2004. In the EU, men lost twice as many life years before age 65 as women. In the Baltic regions, men lost more than twice the number of years as compared to the EU-27 average. The lowest mortality in women before age 65 was found in the Mediterrane of Italy, Spain, Cyprus and Greece. …”

Related information:

 

Data: Eurostat Website: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat

 

Data on "Health statistics":

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/health/public_health/database

 

More information about "Health statistics":

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/health/introduction

 

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