In well-resourced areas of the world anesthesia has become safer over the past decades, and anesthesia mortality does seem to be reducing. However, there is a lack of international agreement over definitions of anesthetic mortality and, therefore, difficulty in knowing exactly what the rate of anesthetic mortality is. Avoidable harm from error is still a problem, and sophisticated analysis sugg...

We analyse the trends in inequality mortality across poverty groups at different ages over period 1996–2016 Netherlands. In addition, we examine whether these are related to unequal changes avoidable mortality, separated by preventable and treatable causes of death. find that while inequalities have decreased up 65, increased for oldest age groups. The decline younger can, a large extent, be ex...

OBJECTIVE To analyse studies evaluating cases of potentially "avoidable" death. DESIGN The definitions, sources of information, and methods were reviewed with a structured protocol. The different types of avoidable factors,--that is, deficiencies in medical care that may have contributed to death--were categorised. The presence of explicit classifications and standards was examined. basic cri...

The relationship between environmental noise and health has been examined in depth. In view of the sheer number of persons exposed, attention should be focused on road traffic noise. The city of Madrid (Spain) is a densely populated metropolitan area in which 80% of all environmental noise exposure is attributed to traffic. The aim of this study was to quantify avoidable deaths resulting from r...