Scottish mortality in a European context

Health trends are continually changing, and this research looked at how mortality trends in Scotland changed within a European context.  

Our 2012 'Still the sick man?' report summarises Scottish mortality trends over a 60-year period (1950 – 2010) in comparison to 19 other mainly Western European countries.   

Our findings demonstrated that while there had been notable improvements in Scottish mortality for a range of major conditions, there were still many concerning trends, in particular for all-cause mortality among the younger working-age population and elderly women, and for female lung cancer.  

There are two main sets of analyses:  

• all-cause mortality trends broken down by gender and by age grouping (infancy, childhood, younger working adults, working age and elderly); 
• cause-specific mortality trends for 13 causes broken down by gender within the working-age adult population (15-74 years).