Does the Environment Provoke Geographical Differences in Mortality by Cause?

Graziella Caselli, Università La Sapienza

This paper refers to 94 Italian provinces and considers trends in mortality by cause, age and sex, which appear to be most influenced by the geographical context. A first goal is to define which causes of death have changed the geographical panorama. Another goal is to study the relationship between mortality by cause and socio-economic, environmental, cultural and nutritional variables. We refer to mortality data by cause for the adult and elderly population for the 1990s in light of external variables for the same years (static analysis) as well as for the 1970s and 1980s (dynamic analysis). These will be tested using advanced statistical methods and linear and non-linear models.