Avoidable deaths

Avoidable deaths is a term used for deaths, which could have been prevented with adequate disease prevention and therapy. There are a number of competing approaches to the definition of avoidable deaths. The following definition is based essentially on the concept of the council of experts for the concerted action in the health services (Sachverständigenrat für die Konzertierte Aktion im Gesundheitswesen). According to this specific causes of death in certain age groups are considered as avoidable. The avoidable deaths are indicated per 100,000 inhabitants.

**Avoidable deaths (ICD 9 and ICD 10)**
Disease	ICD 9	ICD 10	Age
Infant deaths • all diseases	-	-	under 1
Certain infectious and parasitic diseases • Tuberculosis • Sequelae of tuberculosis	010 to 018 137	A15 to A19 B90	5 to 64 5 to 64
Neoplasms • Malignant neoplasm of cervix uteri • Hodgkin's disease	180 201	C53 C81	5 to 64 5 to 34
Diseases of the circulatory system • Chronic rheumatic heart diseases • Hypertensive diseases • Cerebrovascular diseases	393 to 398 401 to 405 430 to 438	I05 to I09 I10 to I15 I60 to I69	5 to 44 5 to 64 5 to 64
Diseases of the digestive system • Diseases of appendix • Disorders of cholelithiasis, gallbladder and biliary tract	540 to 543 574 to 576	K35 to K38 K80 to K83	5 to 64 5 to 64
Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium	630 to 676	O00 to O99	15 to 49

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Mortality figure, avoidable deaths (from 1980)

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