Soon Available Online: "Health Statistics from the
Americas, 2003 Edition"
Health Statistics from the Americas, 2003 Edition
is soon to be available in electronic format only on the PAHO web
site (www.paho.org). The publication complements the quadrennial publication
Health in the Americas and is the fifth in a series begun in 1991.
This is the first edition to publish summarized mortality data by
age group and sex for causes of death coded according to the Tenth
Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10).
The 2003 edition contains mortality data for 177 country-years from
35 countries received after publication of the 1998 Edition of this
series. It includes 115 country-years of mortality data coded with
the Ninth Revision (ICD-9) and 62 country-years with the Tenth Revision
(ICD-10). These data are presented for cause groups according to the
PAHO 6/61 List for tabulation of ICD-9 and the PAHO 6/67 List for
tabulation of ICD-10 coded mortality. In addition, average annual
mortality data with estimated rates are shown for 31 selected cause
groups around 1980 and for the latest 3 years available.
The statistical information presented in the publication was prepared
by PAHO’s Special Program for Health Analysis, now the Area of
Health Analysis and Information Systems (AIS), which was also responsible
for the selection, tabulation and technical review of the data presented.
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