title: [A mortality databank for international comparison and background information].
abstract: This article describes the structure and utilization of a computerized databank system for WHO mortality data. This system makes available "at finger-tips" data which previously were published by WHO in its blue volumes. The data can be handled much more flexible. At the moment the system provides information on age-standardized rates (direct standardization), total number of cases, as well as cover per age-group and year for about a hundred countries. The time period covered is 1950-1985, with exceptions for data which are not available to WHO.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Sozial- und Präventivmedizin, Universität Bern.
authors.forename: C E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Minder
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Matthäus
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007256:Information Systems; D009026:Mortality; D012984:Software; D013557:Switzerland / Q000453:epidemiology
vernacular_title: Eine Mortalitätsdatenbank für internationale Vergleiche und Hintergrundinformationen.