- Name
- Mortality rate attributed to cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, or chronic respiratory disease
- Indicator purpose
- The purpose of this indicator is to track mortality rate attributed to cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, or chronic respiratory disease.
- Abstract
- Mortality rate attributed to cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes or chronic respiratory disease. Probability of dying between the ages of 30 and 70 years from cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes or chronic respiratory diseases.
- Contact organization / person
- Ministry of Health (MOH)
- Unit of measure
- Rate per 100,000 population
- Other characteristics
- developing countries due to ageing. Cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases are the four main causes of NCD burden. Measuring the risk of dying from these four major causes is important to assess the extent of burden from premature mortality due NCDs in a population.
- Classification used
- Probability of dying: The likelihood that an individual would die between two ages given current mortality rates at each age, calculated using life table methods. The probability of death between two ages may be called a mortality rate. Life table: A table showing the mortality experience of a hypothetical group of infants born at the same time and subject throughout their lifetime to a set of age-specific mortality rates. Cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes or chronic respiratory diseases: ICD-10 underlying causes of death I00-I99, COO-C97, E10-E14 and J30-J98.
- Disaggregation
- This indicator is disaggregated by sex.
- Key statistical concepts
- There are 4 steps involved in the calculation of this indicator:
Estimation of WHO life tables, based on the UN World Population Prospects 2012 revision.
Estimation of cause-of-death distributions.
Calculation of age-specific mortality rates from the four main NCDs for each five-year age range between 30 and 70.
Calculation of the probability of dying between the ages of 30 and 70 years from cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes or chronic respiratory disease
- Recommended uses
- This indicator can be used to assist the Ministry of Health in developing or strengthening strategies and programs aimed at decreasing the mortality rate attributed to cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, or chronic respiratory disease in Belize.
- Other comments
- All the metadata shown in this document was gathered from United Nation Statistics Division. The metadata was extracted from https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/.
- Target 2020
- Strategies incorporated in Health Sector Plan and are being pursued.
- Target 2030
- Reduce mortality by one third
