Mortality, morbidity and health in developed societies: a review of data sources

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to review the major sources of data on mortality, morbidity and health in Europe and in other developed regions in order to examine their potential for analysing mortality and morbidity levels and trends. The review is primarily focused on routinely collected information covering a whole country. No attempt is made to draw up an inventory of sources by country; the paper deals instead with the pros and cons of each source for mortality and morbidity studies in demography. While each source considered separately can already yield useful, though partial, results, record linkage among data sources can significantly improve the analysis. Record linkage can also lead to the detection of possible causal associations that could eventually be confirmed. More generally, Big Data can reveal changing mortality and morbidity trends and patterns that could lead to preventive measures being taken rather than more costly curative ones.

Time and causality in the social sciences

“…A more recent development has been the spread of record linkage among data sources, with the adoption of a common personal identification number (PIN) in the various sources. As discussed in Wunsch and Gourbin (2018), the same individual may, for example, be interviewed in a health survey and later on recorded in a cancer register, with information collected by the health insurance system and medical statistics, and end up with his/her cause of death specified on a death certificate and a possible autopsy report. Being able to link these individual records together over time, thanks to a PIN, can give the event history or biography of the person in the areas of health, morbidity, and mortality.…”

“…The importance of trading activity actually depends on the time of the day and on the day of the week (i.e., on a precise instant of time), and chronological time fails to represent the full activity of price variations. This is typically a problem of time-aggregation, discussed more fully in Wunsch et al (2018). Moreover the time-aggregation for a causal event may be different from the time-aggregation for an outcome event.…”

To the Mechanism of the Laser Therapy Modulating Effect on Metabolic Activity of Lymphocyte’s Mitochondria in Patients With Arterial Hypertension

“…Согласно данным Всемирной организации здравоохранения [1] и статистическим отчетам ведущих стран мира [2,3], основной причиной смертности во всем мире продолжают оставаться сердечно-сосудистые заболевания. Высокий уровень смертности и низкая прогнозируемая продолжительность жизни, отмеченные для Российской Федерации, обусловлены болезнями системы кровообращения, которые у трудоспособного населения в 3-6 раз выше в сравнении с жителями стран ЕС [4].…”

Koniec ery tradycyjnych spisów ludności

“…Jak zapobiec konsekwencjom nierównomiernego dostępu do ICT czy wręcz wykluczenia cyfrowego. Jak zapewnić bezpieczeństwo danych w warunkach eksplozji informatycznej (Beręsewicz i Szymkowiak, 2015;Cellary, 2015Cellary, , 2016Ruggles, 2014;Szreder, 2015;Wunsch i Gourbin, 2018;Yu i Chen, 2018). Jak przezwyciężyć problemy wynikające ze wzrostu odmów udziału w badaniach statystycznych, braku zaufania do instytucji administracji państwowej (Chipperfield, Brown, i Bell, 2017).…”