Trends and inequalities in the burden of mortality in Scotland 2000-2015.

BACKGROUND:Cause-specific mortality trends are routinely reported for Scotland. However, ill-defined deaths are not routinely redistributed to more precise and internationally comparable categories nor is the mortality reported in terms of years of life lost to facilitate the calculation of the burd...

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Main Authors: Oscar Mesalles-Naranjo, Ian Grant, Grant M A Wyper, Diane Stockton, Richard Dobbie, Mag McFadden, Elaine Tod, Neil Craig, Colin M Fischbacher, Gerry McCartney
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6070167?pdf=render