INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE This study examines the geographical variation of amenable mortality in Poland, focusing primarily on the role of health care resources at the level of administrative districts and regions, and selected area socioeconomic characteristics as explanatory factors. The concept was used of amenable mortality, based on the assumption that deaths from certain causes should n...

OBJECTIVE To describe the incidence of avoidable mortality for causes amenable to medical care among occupation groups in Canada. METHOD A cohort study over an 11-year period among a representative 15% sample of the non-institutionalized population of Canada aged 30-69 at cohort inception. Age-standardized mortality rates for causes amenable to medical care and all other causes of death were ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the contribution of health care to health gain, and to ethnic and socio-economic health inequalities, in New Zealand over the past quarter century. METHOD Amenable and all-cause mortality rates by ethnicity and equivalised household income tertile from 1981-84 to 2001-04 were estimated from linked census-mortality datasets (the New Zealand Census-Mortality Study). Amenab...

BACKGROUND While research continues into indicators such as preventable and amenable mortality in order to evaluate quality, access, and equity in the healthcare, it is also necessary to continue identifying the areas of greatest risk owing to these causes of death in urban areas of large cities, where a large part of the population is concentrated, in order to carry out specific actions and re...

In this paper, we examine black-white differences in cause-specific mortality during the 1980s when blackwhite disparities in mortality widened in the United States. We group causes of death to those amenable to medical intervention, those closely linked to health behaviors or residential location, and all other causes combined. At older ages, we treat cardiovascular disease, stroke, and forms ...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Mortality from causes amenable to health care is a valuable indicator of quality of the health care system, which can be used to assess inter-regional differences and trends over time. This study investigates these mortality rates in Israel over time, and compares inter-regional and international rates in recent years. RESULTS Age-adjusted amenable mortality rates hav...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to review published work reporting mortality from conditions amenable to medical intervention and compare the methods used and the results obtained. SOURCE MATERIAL: Two types of analysis were examined: (1) analyses of time trends, relating decline in mortality from amenable conditions to improvements in medical care (3 papers); (2) analyses of geographi...