Deprivation, disease, and death in Scotland: graphical display of survival of a cohort

摘要: Death rates are widely used as a convenient way of summarising important aspects health in population. However, they not always easy to interpret, and even when techniques such standardisation the impact premature death may be difficult assess. Cohort analysis provides summary information that takes account age at can displayed graphically readily understood format. First 1870 by statistician William Farr, this straightforward technique deserves wider use.1 It is accepted deprivation increases risk early death. which from specific causes occurs relative contributions these mortality rarely described clearly.2 We data on survival cohort middle aged people, divided into groups according deprivation, examine relation between age, graphical way. From census projections General Register Office for …