We gathered and examined mortality data from around the world – from disease to murder to mudslides – then calculated and visualised what killed the most people.
They used three different measures to assess income inequality, and then matched the results to National Center for Health Statistics mortality data from the same period.
The researchers, led by Raj Chetty, a professor of economics at Stanford University, analyzed more than 1.4 billion federal tax returns, as well as mortality data from the Social Security Administration, from the years 2001 to 2014.
Deaths from heart attacks and stroke halved in England and Wales over the first 11 years of this century, while the numbers dying from cancer rose, according to newly published mortality data from the Office for National Statistics.
In analyzing mortality data from the 1990s, the researchers concluded that only about 1 in 16,000 Americans per year had their lives extended or saved as a result of recent improvements in health care technology.
Source: produced by Christopher J. Conover based on mortality data from OECD Data, Health at a Glance (2017).
"They are developing, and that comes with many great things," said Lindsey Torre, MSPH, who along with colleagues at the American Cancer Society looked at more than a decade of cancer and mortality data from 50 countries for the study.
We combined mortality data from several studies using random-effects meta-analysis.
Infant mortality data from 2006 were therefore only available for review in 2008.
[43] To derive hospital mortality data from this trial, we used individual patient data.
Mortality data from these countries are therefore limited and potentially biased [3], [4], [5].
