Table of contents

  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Symbols
  • Summary
  • 1 Introduction
    • What are multiple causes of death?
    • What are the benefits of using multiple causes of death data?
    • Objectives of this bulletin
    • Scope of this bulletin
  • 2 Methods
    • Data sources
    • Classification of causes of death
    • Chronic disease causes of death
    • Analytical techniques
  • 3 Results
    • Variation in multiple causes of death by age at death
    • Variation in multiple causes of death by sociodemographic characteristics
    • Variation in multiple causes of death by underlying cause
    • Trends in multiple causes of death for chronic diseases
    • Patterns of contributory causes of death
    • Age at death for selected chronic diseases
  • 4 Discussion
  • 5 Appendix
    • ICD-10 chapter level groupings of causes of death
    • Deaths from selected chronic diseases
  • References
  • List of tables
  • List of figures
  • List of boxes
  • Related publications