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Socioeconomic differences in the use of ill-defined causes of death in 16 European countries

Kulhanova, Ivana; Menvielle, G; Bopp, M; Borrell, C; Deboosere, P; Eikemo, Terje Andreas; Hoffmann, Rasmus; Leinsalu, M; Martikainen, P; Regidor, E; Rodriguez-Sanz, M; Rychtarikova, Jitka; Wojtyniak, Bogdan; Mackenbach, Johan P.
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http://hdl.handle.net/11250/429174
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2014
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BMC Public Health 2014, 14(1295)   10.1186/1471-2458-14-1295
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Background: Cause-of-death data linked to information on socioeconomic position form one of the most

important sources of information about health inequalities in many countries. The proportion of deaths from

ill-defined conditions is one of the indicators of the quality of cause-of-death data. We investigated educational

differences in the use of ill-defined causes of death in official mortality statistics.

Methods: Using age-standardized mortality rates from 16 European countries, we calculated the proportion of all

deaths in each educational group that were classified as due to “Symptoms, signs and ill-defined conditions”. We

tested if this proportion differed across educational groups using Chi-square tests.

Results: The proportion of ill-defined causes of death was lower than 6.5% among men and 4.5% among women

in all European countries, without any clear geographical pattern. This proportion statistically significantly differed

by educational groups in several countries with in most cases a higher proportion among less than secondary

educated people compared with tertiary educated people.

Conclusions: We found evidence for educational differences in the distribution of ill-defined causes of death.

However, the differences between educational groups were small suggesting that socioeconomic inequalities in

cause-specific mortality in Europe are not likely to be biased.
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BioMed Central
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BMC Public Health

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