896Quantifying cause-related mortality incorporating multiple causes: challenges and opportunities

Abstract

Abstract Key contact person Dr Grace Joshy, Fellow, Research School of Population Health, Australian National University. Focus and outcomes for participants Mortality statistics are typically based on a single underlying cause of death (UCoD), derived from multiple conditions on the death certificate, and have provided critical evidence for policy and practice for over a century. There have been radical shifts in patterns of death in the past couple of decades; deaths in older ages are increasingly from chronic and degenerative diseases. The relevance of assuming that a si..