There are practical problems with the use of mortality data.

The index was developed decades ago by life insurance companies, based on mortality data at the time.

For those of you who haven't read the original source, the mortality data are age-standardised.

Trust website, including sections on its history, current news, mortality data and other patient information.

As might be expected from the study of mortality data acute health problems are not equally distributed throughout the population.

An immersion method is used and mortality data taken periodically.

Mortality data are the most readily available source of information about the health of the population.

That is a 39 percent drop since 1989, when the state first began to collect mortality data on bypass surgery.

Mortality data indicate that only a minority of such deaths occur in 'the executive male'.

Regional health authorities will from time to time produce mortality data at ward level.

This may not matter with mortality data, where it seems unlikely that there would be very rapid transformation in the main causes of death.

Mortality data are given in Table 2.

Mortality data are, therefore, readily available in Britain.

These rates are in turn largely dependent on long-term gilt yields and mortality data.

For example, by relying exclusively on mortality data the ineffectiveness of medical science is overstated.

For Asians, the expected mortality was calculated in a similar manner, using immigrant mortality data.

Access prebuilt tables of mortality data for 2005.

Consequently inferences made about the main sources of morbidity in later life drawn from mortality data will be misleading.

Financial constraints such as reliance on food supplementations may also lead to skewed infant mortality data.

The information provided on the death certificate provides the basis of mortality data which are eventually published and analysed by researchers and social commentators.

And for both, morbidity statistics are less accessible and less reliable than mortality data.

This mortality data is fascinating.

Despite the limitations of mortality data it is possible to draw a number of conclusions about the distribution of health and illness in later life.

Mortality data indicated that cancer, circulatory diseases and respiratory diseases were the biggest causes of death.