Declining Amenable Mortality: Time Trend (2000-2013) and Geographic Area Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To update amenable mortality in 32 OECD countries at 2013 (or last available year), to describe the time trends during 2000-2013, and to evaluate the association of these trends with various geographic areas.

Data sources

Secondary data from 32 countries during 2000-2013, gathered from the World Health Organization Mortality Database.

Study design

Time trend analysis.

Data collection

Using Nolte and McKee's list, age-standardized amenable mortality rates (SDRs) were calculated as the annual number of deaths over the population aged 0-74 years per 100,000 inhabitants. We performed a mixed-effects polynomial regression analysis on the annual SDRs to determine whether specific geographic areas were associated with different SDR trajectories over time.

SUBMITTER: Gianino MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5583294 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature