Territorial gaps on quality of causes of death statistics over the last forty years in Spain.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The quality of the statistics on causes of death (CoD) does not present consolidated indicators in literature further than the coding group of ill-defined conditions of the International Classification of Diseases. Our objective was to assess the territorial quality of CoD by reliability of the official mortality statistics in Spain over the years 1980-2019.

Methods

A descriptive epidemiological design of four decades (1980-, 1990-, 2000-, and 2010-2019) by region (18) and sex was implemented. The CoD cases, age-adjusted rates and ratios (to all-cause) were assigned by reliability to unspecific and ill-defined quality categories. The regional mortality rates were contrasted to the Spanish median by decade and sex by the Comparative Mortality Ratio (CMR) in a Bayes

SUBMITTER: Cirera L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10837971 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature