Griffiths Clare, Rooney Cleo, Brock Anita
Office for National Statistics.
Health Stat Q. 2005 Winter(28):6-17.
This article examines how best to identify the leading causes of mortality in England an Wales, by using different way of grouping causes of death, based on a list developed by the World Health Organization (WHO). Four different versions of this list are compared. The leading cause of death across all age groups depends on the ways in which common diseases and external causes are aggregated or disaggregated into groups. Areas of particular debate, examined in this article, are the grouping or splitting of accidents by mechanism and cancers by site within leading cause lists. These affect which causes appear in the top ten, and their order in different age groups.
本文探讨如何通过基于世界卫生组织（WHO）制定的一份清单，采用不同的死因分组方式，来最佳地确定英格兰和威尔士的主要死因。对该清单的四个不同版本进行了比较。所有年龄组的主要死因取决于常见疾病和外部死因被汇总或细分为不同组别的方式。本文所研究的特别有争议的领域，是主要死因清单中按机制对事故进行分组或拆分，以及按部位对癌症进行分组或拆分。这些会影响哪些死因出现在前十位，以及它们在不同年龄组中的排序。
