World mortality in 2000 : life tables for 191 countries / A.D. Lopez... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

World Health Organization.

Lopez, Alan D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mortality.

Life expectancy.

Physical Description:

v, 512 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Mortalite mondiale en 2000

Mortalidad mundial en 2000

Place of Publication:

Geneva : World Health Organization, c2002.

Language Note:

English, French, Spanish.

Summary:

Reliable information on the numbers of people who die in various countries according to age and sex is a fundamental requirement for setting health priorities and evaluation health programmes. Mortality levels and trends have been monitored in some countries for centuries, while in others, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, little is currently known about adult mortality. This uncertainty has increased in the 1990s due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, precisely at the time when priority setting in health requires reliable information on mortality levels in countries and regions. This book provides detailed country, regional and global estimates of age-specific mortality rates and life expectancy in the year 2000 for all 191 Member States of WHO, and for 14 sub-regions. Details on the data sources available and how they have been evaluated and adjusted to produce the best possible estimates of mortality are provided, along with a comprehensive analysis and presentation of all-known census, survey and vital registration data on child mortality since the 1960s. The book will serve as a key reference on mortality conditions worldwide at the start of the new millennium and should be an invaluable source against which to monitor the success of disease and injury prevention programmes. The text is trilingual, English, French and Spanish.

Contents:

Intro

English

Contents

Introduction

Data sources and adjustments

Vital registration data

Multi-source approaches for specific populations

Census and survey data

Methods

Life table construction

Estimating adult mortality

Estimating mortality from HIV/AIDS

Uncertainty bounds

Results

Discussion

References

Français

Table des matières

Sources de données et ajustements

Données d'état civil

Approches multi-sources pour des populations spécifiques

Donneés de recensement et d'enquête

Méthodes

Élaboration d'une table de mortalité

Estimation de la mortalité adulte

Estimation de la mortalité par le VIH/SIDA

Limites d'incertitude

Résultats

Références

Español

Indice

Introducción

Fuentes de datos y ajustes

Registros civiles

Procedimiento de fuentes múltiples para determinadas poblaciones

Datos de censos y encuestas

Métodos

Confección de la tabla mortalidad

Cálculo de la mortalidad adulta

Cálculo de mortalidad por VIH/SIDA

Límites de incertidumbre

Resultados

Debate

Referencias

Appendix A: Life Tables by WHO sub-Region

Appendice A: Tables de Mortalité détaillées par sous-région de L'OMS

Anexo A: Tablas de Mortalidad detalladas por subregiones de la OMS

Appendix B: Life Tables by Country

Appendice B: Tables de Mortalité détaillées par pays

Anexo B: Tablas de Mortalidad detalladas por pais

Appendix C: Child Mortality Data, 1960-2000

Appendice C: Données des mortalité des enfants, 1960-2000

Anexo C: Càculo de la mortalidad Infantiles, 1960-2000.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

92-4-068177-9

9786610060375

1-280-06037-9

OCLC:

559618410