RESPIRATORY MORTALITY IN 10 COUNTRIES DUR ING 12 YEARS

The aim of this paper is to compare respiratory mortality, cancer and tuberculosis excluded, in 10 countries during 12 years. Mortality data came from World Health Statistics Annual of the WHO and age adjusted rates were calculated. For all causes respiratory mortality, acute pat hologies and chronic obstructions not elsewhere classified, United Kin gdom and above all Eire have the highest rates; Italy, France and Germ any have the lowest rates; the other countries (Belgium, Denmark, Neth erlands, Canada, United States) have rates similar, sometimes equal). For chronic conditions, Denmark has the highest rates, Canada and Unit ed States the lowest; Eire and United Kingdom begin a great decrease f rom 1983. On the whole, differences between countries do not vary very much with the years or the pathologies and the evolution over the tim e is not very marked apart from some countries.