Asbestos related mortality in Northern Ireland 1985-1994

Cancer Mortality in Northern Ireland

THE Health Advisory Council for Northern Ireland (1946) has drawn attention to the very great increase which has occurred in the cancer death rate during the last hundred years. When the Council's memorandum was prepared, the crude rate was four times larger than it was in the decade 1851-60. More recently, the Registrar-General for Northern Ireland (1949) has emphasized that until 1931, the an...

Recent Trends in Maternal Mortality in Northern Ireland

Asthma mortality and death certification in Northern Ireland.

BACKGROUND Asthma mortality has been rising in many western countries for largely unknown reasons. One cause could be change in certification practice. This study was designed to investigate the accuracy of death certification in Northern Ireland for the years 1981-4 and, in addition, to assess the reliability of trends observed in asthma death registration from 1957 to 1985. METHODS The foll...

Perinatal mortality in Northern Ireland: where are we now?

Perinatal mortality in Northern Ireland has been declining over the last 30 years, but the factors which may account for this fall have not been clearly delineated. Crude perinatal mortality figures yield very little insight into the problem, and meaningful management statistics are urgently required if service performance is to be reasonably assessed. This paper sets out the case for birth-wei...

The Age Distribution of Tuberculosis Mortality in Northern Ireland

INTRODUCTION. IN a recent review of worlcl tuberculosis mortality, MIcDougall (1950) demiioinstrated that niortalitv has declined in most of the countries which publish reasonablv reliable statistics. Of twentv-nine countries considered, only in Portugal andl Scotland were the crude death rates less in 1937-:39 than in 1947-49. '1'he average aninual rates quoted for Northern Ireland, 91.2 and 6...