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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-10-15
pubmed:abstractText
New Zealand mortality records for the years 1980 to 1993 were analysed to estimate the aggregate burden of infectious disease using a recoding of ICD-9 codes to identify deaths with infectious aetiology. The recoding scheme was modified from one developed by US CDC, which used expert panels to assign ICD codes to categories dependent on the proportion of the code attributable to infection. ICD-9 Chapter One ('Infectious and parasitic diseases') accounted for only 0.7% of total deaths. Following recoding, this proportion increased tenfold, with 6.9% of deaths attributable to infectious disease. This proportion was stable or declined only slowly between 1980 and 1993. While rates varied by age, gender and ethnicity, the results indicate that infectious disease still accounts for a substantial proportion of the burden of disease in New Zealand.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1326-0200
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
22
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
257-60
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
The burden of infectious disease in New Zealand.
pubmed:affiliation
Public Health Intelligence, Public Health Group, Ministry of Health, Wellington, New Zealand. stephen_christie@moh.govt.nz
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article