Próba oszacowania liczby zgonów według przyczyn w Polsce w latach 1996—2002
An attempt to estimate the number of deaths by cause in Poland, 1996—2002

Summary/Abstract: The strike of Polish medical doctors in the years 1996–2002 seriously affected the collection of cause-of-death data in the frame of vital registration system. This article presents a method assessing the total number of deaths by cause under the assumption that the distribution of causes across correctly reported deaths and across deaths without recognized underlying cause was the same within each demographic group (defined by sex, age, place of residence). For each year of strike several variants of assessment were performed; variants differed with regard to the level of detail as for the age and territorial division. The variants gave similar results for territorial characteristics. It means that the scale of protest was not big enough to expose possible regional diversity of mortality by causes. The reconstructed, complete and longitudinal data on deaths by single causes will serve for future analysis of mortality trends and will be used to identify and discuss the possible links between trends in mortality and the political and socio-economic changes that occurred in Poland.

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