Under 75 Mortality from Liver Disease: Age and Sex Standardized Rates

Directly age and sex standardized mortality rates for liver disease in people under 75 years old per 100,000 registered patients. Government Digital Service provides this public health metric, with the current version updated in September 2016 and a next version due in December 2017.

Use Cases

• Monitor temporal trends in premature liver disease mortality based on standardized rates.
• Assess public health interventions by comparing mortality rates across demographic groups.
• Model disease burden for healthcare resource planning based on age and sex standardized metrics.

Strengths

• Data is directly age and sex standardized, allowing for demographic comparisons.
• Published under the Open Government Licence, facilitating reuse and analysis.
• Available in common formats like Excel and CSV for easy access.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely compiled from national health or mortality registries.

Time Range

Calendar year(s) unspecified in provided metadata.

Freshness

Current version updated Sep-16; next version due Dec-17.

Geography

Coverage unspecified, but likely pertains to the European Union given the platform.