title: [Trend analysis of causes of death among the population in Shandong Province from 1970 to 1974 and from 1981 to 1989].
abstract: This report showed the general mortality and changes of mortality distribution among the population in Shandong province in the early 1970S and in 1980S, through data analysis of causes of death in the Province from 1970 to 1974 and from 1981 to 1989. In the past 20 years, the mortality in respiratory diseases increased by 19.21%, ranking the first among the leading causes of death; the mortality in malignant tumors and cerebrovascular diseases increased by +7.15% and 75.31% respectively, rising from the third and fourth to the second and third leading causes of death, the mortality in heart diseases changed little, remaining in the fourth leading cause of death; the mortality in infectious diseases decreased by 78.22%, dropping from the second place in the early 1970S to the eighth place.
authors.affiliation: Shandong Provincial Sanitation and anti-epidemic station.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D002423:Cause of Death / Q000639:trends*; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000401:mortality; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality; D012120:Respiration Disorders / Q000401:mortality