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Deaths: key references


Note. The are too many relevant publications on mortality in Scotland and the UK to list here. The following is merely a very small selection. Other useful papers/reports are cited in some of the documents listed below.

Note also that a number of citations listed in the health inequalities key references section are also based on relevant analyses of mortality data.


Bloor M., Gannon M., Hay G., Jackson G., Leyland A.H. and McKeganey N. Contribution of problem drug users’ deaths to excess mortality in Scotland: secondary analysis of cohort study. BMJ 2008;337:a478.

Leyland AH, Dundas R, McLoone P, Boddy FA. Inequalities in mortality in Scotland 1981-2001. MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit Occasional Paper no. 16. Glasgow: MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, 2007.

Chalmers J,  Capewell S. Deprivation, disease and death in Scotland: graphical display of survival of a cohort. BMJ, 2001; 323; 967-968.

Dorling, D. Death in Britain: How local mortality rates have changed 1950s-1990s. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 1997

Fitzpatrick J et al. Geographic Inequalities in Mortality in the United Kingdom during the 1990s. London: ONS Health Statistics Quarterly 07, Autumn 2000.

Hanlon P et al. Chasing The Scottish Effect. Why Scotland needs a step-change in health if it is to catch up with the rest of Europe.PDF Button (600KB). Public Health Institute of Scotland, 2001.

Hanlon P et al. Why is mortality higher in Scotland than in England & Wales? Decreasing influence of socioeconomic deprivation between 1981 and 2001 supports the existence of a 'Scottish Effect'.PDF Button (100KB). Journal of Public Health, 2005; vol 27, no. 2, pp 199-204.

Leon D., Morton S., Cannegieter S., McKee M. Scotland's health in an international context. Public Health Institute of Scotland, 2003.

McLoone P. Increasing mortality among adults in Scotland 1981-1999. European Journal of Public Health, 2003.

Walsh D., Taulbut M., Hanlon P. The aftershock of deindustrialisation: trends in mortality in Scotland and other parts of post-industrial Europe PDF Button (3.5MB). Glasgow Centre for Population Health, 2008.

Watt GCM, Ecob R. Analysis of falling mortality rates in Edinburgh & Glasgow. Journal of Public Health Medicine, 2000; vol 22, no. 3, pp 330-336.