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The mortality insights dashboard shows respiratory disease mortality rates and how these differ across England.

Please reference use of the Taskforce data dashboards, and if you have any comments or questions please contact taskforce@asthmaandlung.org.uk.

How to use this dashboard

  • The Mortality Analysis dashboard shows mortality rates for respiratory disease and COPD by ICB and age, allowing you to compare mortality rates across England.
  • Dashboard has two views – Table View and Map View (default)
  • When using Map View, ensure the Value Type is Mortality per 100,000 for comparison purposes
    • Hover over map to see the numbers and rate of deaths for a given area. Darker-coloured areas have higher death rates.
    • We recommend using this view to visualise death rates across the country
  • Use Table View to compare death rates across the country from Respiratory Disease (only)
    • If Age <75yrs selected, the table includes total death rate and preventable death rate
  • See the data source for more visualisations (including COPD death rates) of this data

Unique filters

  • Time period – calendar year from 2021
  • Age – All Ages or under 75s. We recommend using All ages.
  • Indicator name – choose from Respiratory or COPD (asthma death numbers are too small to produce a death rate, but the data source includes older information on asthma deaths)

About the data

Mortality rates from respiratory diseases are displayed in the Respiratory Disease Public Health Profile, produced by the Department of Health & Social Care and based on Office for National Statistics data.

Mortality from respiratory disease indicators are published by the Office for National Statistics, and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities. Respiratory disease is one of the top causes of death in England and smoking is the major cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), one of the major respiratory diseases. These indicators focus public health attention on the prevention of smoking and other environmental factors that contribute to people getting respiratory disease. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) uses software to automate the translation of cause of death information on death certificates from text to International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes, and to select the underlying cause of death

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Read the data disclaimer.