Analysis of cancer incidence and mortality in Bosnia and Herzegovina and comparison with Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia

Abstract

Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is a country in Southbordered by Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro. Bosnia and Herzegovina is divided into Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH), Republic of Srpska (RS) and Brčko District (BD). We carried analysis of data available from Public Health Institute of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Public Health Institute of Republic of Srpska and from Agency for statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina. From this analysis we assessed cancer incidence and mortality in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Srpska and Brčko District. After that we compared our data with other countries Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia. We developed multiple linear regression model for prediction of male and female crude death rate from gross value added for health and social work and incidence in FBiH. We have found that there is extremely high number of newly diagnosed patients in HercegovinaNeretva comparing to different cantons of FBiH. This result should be further examined. Eight leading causes of cancer death in FBiH (bronchus and lung, colon and rectum, stomach, liver and intrahepatic bile ducts, breast, pancreas, brain, prostate) were analyzed for different periods and for difference between genders. Cancer is one of the major causes of deaths in the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) cancer is a leading cause of death in the world. In year 2008 7.6 million people died because of cancer and this number is around 13% of all n the world (WHO, Cancer, Globocan