✦ LIBER ✦
Underlying versus multiple causes of death: Effects on interpreting cancer mortality differentials by age, sex, and race
✍ Scribed by J. Michael Wrigley; Charles B. Nam
- Book ID
- 104642710
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 605 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0167-5923
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✦ Synopsis
The conventional approach to measuring the medical cause of death in mortality analysis bases death on a single, underlying cause. An alternative approach, which makes use of all of the medical conditions cited by a physician on the death certificate and treats them in a multiplecause framework, is compared with the conventional approach in studying differential mortality among those 45 years of age and older in Florida. The two approaches are seen to provide different patterns of information that have analytical as well as policy ramifications.