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Disease-specific mortality refers to mortality due to particular causes of death, according to the ICD. It is usually expressed in number of deaths per 100,000 population. In order to make mortality rates comparable among countries or regions, standardisation is applied. The resulting (age-) standardised death rate (SDR) is a weighted average of age-specific mortality rates. The weighting factor is the age distribution of a standard reference population. The standard reference population used is the European standard population as defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
This section contains mortality data on cancer (lung and breast cancer), other non-communicable diseases (diabetes and COPD) and injuries (suicide).
Within the Eurothine project, relative inequalities in total cancer mortality by level of education were compared between 12 European populations. These comparative data of total cancer mortality are presented for both men and women in the EUphocus Health inequalities.
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This EUphact is limited to data presentations of EC Health Indicators.
It has been internally edited.
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