title: [The Italian mortality map at the municipal level].
abstract: The Italian Atlas of mortality at municipality level is the result of a research project coordinated by the Emilia-Romagna region and supported by the Health Ministry. To the realisation of this project have collaborated the Institute of Medical Statistics of Milano and the CILEA under the supervision of Prof. Cesare Cislaghi. Compared to previous equivalent products, this Atlas contains a number of methodological and content innovations. This was a consequence of the development of new statistical methods and the need of achieving different aims. First of all, the Atlas was aimed at describing the mortality at small area level, which is obtained via Kernel estimates; secondly, the objective was to identify suspect clusters of deaths which may suggest the existence of high risk areas. The Mortality Atlas is formed by 31 tables, one for each of the analysed cause of death; each table has a circular shape of 100 hundred kilometers radius and contains a variable number of municipalities; each municipality may be present in more than one circle. The Atlas is available on magnetic support and for each cause of death are provided several statistical analyses and indicators included in different files. One of these files can be directly used to build high quality maps using the graphical package MAPINFO.
authors.affiliation: Regione Emilia-Romagna, Assessorato alla Sanità e Servizi Sociali, Segrate, Milano.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Luppi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Camnasio
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Benedetti
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Covezzi
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cislaghi
mesh_terms: D001270:Cervical Atlas; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000401:mortality*; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality*; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000401:mortality*
vernacular_title: L'atlante Italiano di mortalità a livello comunale.