Table 3

Numbers of death N, age and sex standardised mortality rates ASMR, and relative index of inequality RII for groups of avoidable conditions by country

A. Diseases of infectious origin
Country	All diseases of infectious origin					Tuberculosis		Pneumonia/Influenza		Other infectious
	N	ASMR		RII^*	95% CI	RII^*	95% CI	RII^*	95% CI	RII^*	95% CI
	N	Lower^† education	Higher^† education	RII^*	95% CI	RII^*	95% CI	RII^*	95% CI	RII^*	95% CI
Finland	4053	24.4	13.1	4.21	3.65 to 4.86	2.73	1.68 to 4.44	5.72	4.79 to 6.84	2.00	1.50 to 2.68
Sweden	2955	11.5	6.4	3.17	2.75 to 3.66	4.75	2.09 to 10.77	3.80	3.15 to 4.57	2.30	1.83 to 2.90
Norway	1536	13.2	8.0	2.96	2.42 to 3.62	10.94	4.36 to 27.43	3.10	2.34 to 4.10	2.35	1.72 to 3.21
Denmark	1136	14.0	6.8	5.04	3.95 to 6.44	14.39	4.07 to 50.81	6.21	4.18 to 9.22	3.99	2.89 to 5.51
Belgium	3646	17.2	12.2	2.26	1.97 to 2.60	3.14	1.74 to 5.67	4.03	3.21 to 5.04	1.37	1.13 to 1.66
Switzerland	3950	23.4	14.9	3.77	3.32 to 4.28	7.47	3.05 to 18.30	5.51	4.36 to 6.97	3.08	2.64 to 3.59
Turin	336	8.3	4.9	3.84	2.43 to 6.05	6.71	1.56 to 28.87	4.12	2.22 to 7.65	2.90	1.35 to 6.22
Barcelona	1001	15.9	10.9	3.32	2.52 to 4.36	9.89	4.47 to 21.87	2.65	1.68 to 4.19	2.89	1.97 to 4.23
Madrid region	550	19.2	15.3	2.04	1.42 to 2.91	4.42	1.09 to 17.90	2.46	1.37 to 4.39	1.61	1.00 to 2.60
Basque region	965	23.0	14.7	4.55	3.42 to 6.04	1.98	0.38 to 10.21	1.39	0.61 to 3.19	5.32	3.92 to 7.21
Slovenia	1253	19.8	10.7	5.16	4.18 to 6.37	13.55	7.23 to 25.41	5.38	4.18 to 6.92	2.18	1.31 to 3.61
Hungary	2268	16.6	5.7	9.07	7.21 to 11.42	15.38	10.18 to 23.22	10.13	7.11 to 14.45	3.07	1.95 to 4.84
Czech Republic	3298	19.4	8.0	7.62	6.34 to 9.16	24.05	10.52 to 55.00	7.38	6.03 to 9.04	5.06	3.01 to 8.52
Poland	7724	23.5	8.4	8.12	7.23 to 9.10	45.47	32.39 to 63.83	8.22	7.02 to 9.64	2.98	2.44 to 3.63
Lithuania	1541	106.4	20.9	19.05	14.94 to 24.30	39.46	27.82 to 55.97	12.12	8.23 to 17.86	3.53	1.84 to 6.78
Estonia	1378	98.9	33.4	6.81	5.44 to 8.53	12.97	8.39 to 20.05	5.82	4.42 to 7.65	2.09	0.90 to 4.86
All countries	37590	28.4	12.2	4.69	4.48 to 4.90	14.68	12.77 to 16.88	5.46	5.12 to 5.82	2.52	2.34 to 2.71

B. Selected malignant conditions
Country	All selected malignant conditions					Cervical cancer		Leukaemia and Hodgkin's disease
	N	ASMR		RII^*	95% CI	RII^*	95% CI	RII^*	95% CI
	N	Lower education	Higher education	RII^*	95% CI	RII^*	95% CI	RII^*	95% CI
Finland	1584	8.3	6.5	1.66	1.35 to 2.05	5.08	2.91 to 8.80	1.37	1.09 to 1.72
Sweden	2751	8.5	7.4	1.39	1.21 to 1.60	2.93	2.19 to 3.93	1.09	0.93 to 1.28
Norway	1461	11.6	8.3	1.70	1.39 to 2.09	4.58	3.32 to 6.33	0.90	0.68 to 1.17
Denmark	1130	11.1	8.8	1.44	1.15 to 1.81	2.28	1.55 to 3.34	1.05	0.78 to 1.41
Belgium	2351	10.9	9.7	1.40	1.19 to 1.66	3.27	2.24 to 4.79	1.12	0.93 to 1.35
Switzerland	2048	10.1	8.3	1.47	1.23 to 1.75	2.03	1.39 to 2.97	1.27	1.03 to 1.56
Turin	397	9.0	8.5	1.25	0.84 to 1.85	3.68	1.08 to 12.52	1.13	0.74 to 1.73
Barcelona	690	9.6	9.1	1.23	0.90 to 1.68	1.95	0.98 to 3.88	1.11	0.78 to 1.57
Madrid region	316	11.0	7.9	2.06	1.28 to 3.31	3.23	1.07 to 9.72	1.86	1.09 to 3.18
Basque region	307	6.0	5.4	1.56	0.90 to 2.70	3.66	0.91 to 14.79	1.27	0.70 to 2.33
Slovenia	965	12.6	10.7	1.31	1.03 to 1.67	1.89	1.25 to 2.86	1.14	0.84 to 1.54
Hungary	3112	19.2	13.9	2.01	1.72 to 2.36	3.35	2.60 to 4.32	1.60	1.30 to 1.97
Czech Republic	3239	17.0	11.8	2.24	1.91 to 2.62	4.12	3.11 to 5.46	1.70	1.41 to 2.07
Poland	7532	19.2	12.8	2.83	2.57 to 3.13	5.21	4.51 to 6.02	1.68	1.47 to 1.92
Lithuania	919	33.0	17.7	3.29	2.48 to 4.37	8.27	5.40 to 12.68	1.58	1.08 to 2.31
Estonia	440	16.5	14.8	1.61	1.11 to 2.32	4.32	2.40 to 7.76	0.84	0.52 to 1.35
All countries	29242	13.3	10.1	1.84	1.75 to 1.93	3.90	3.59 to 4.24	1.32	1.23 to 1.40

C. Selected cardiorespiratory conditions
Country	All selected cardiorespiratory conditions					Hypertension and cerebrovascular disease		Chronic rheumatic heart disease		Asthma
	N	ASMR		RII^*	95% CI	RII^*	95% CI	RII^*	95% CI	RII^*	95% CI
	N	Lower education	Higher education	RII^*	95% CI	RII^*	95% CI	RII^*	95% CI	RII^*	95% CI
Finland	10947	60.1	40.9	2.40	2.20 to 2.60	2.35	2.15 to 2.56	2.36	1.22 to 4.57	5.13	3.04 to 8.63
Sweden	10883	34.8	22.1	2.21	2.06 to 2.38	2.14	1.99 to 2.31	2.48	1.50 to 4.09	4.00	2.88 to 5.55
Norway	6226	37.5	26.2	3.03	2.74 to 3.35	2.69	2.42 to 2.99	4.71	2.28 to 9.74	7.45	5.42 to 10.23
Denmark	3697	52.6	33.0	2.25	1.97 to 2.56	2.08	1.82 to 2.38	3.82	3.82 to 3.82	6.19	3.61 to 10.61
Belgium	9971	37.8	28.2	2.21	2.03 to 2.41	2.20	2.01 to 2.41	1.24	1.24 to 1.24	2.54	1.92 to 3.37
Switzerland	6399	33.0	24.6	2.59	2.34 to 2.86	2.47	2.22 to 2.74	3.87	1.99 to 7.52	4.03	2.81 to 5.79
Turin	1964	43.6	36.7	1.58	1.32 to 1.89	1.60	1.33 to 1.92	1.56	1.56 to 1.56	1.41	0.47 to 4.27
Barcelona	2687	37.4	31.1	1.64	1.39 to 1.93	1.53	1.29 to 1.81	2.43	1.39 to 4.22	3.66	1.45 to 9.23
Madrid region	997	33.0	31.1	1.43	1.10 to 1.86	1.21	0.91 to 1.60	4.52	1.85 to 11.06	3.99	0.69 to 22.95
Basque region	1372	24.9	26.6	1.01	0.78 to 1.30	1.02	0.78 to 1.33	0.79	0.32 to 1.96
Slovenia	6647	95.8	64.7	3.01	2.75 to 3.29	3.07	2.80 to 3.38	1.97	1.27 to 3.05	2.84	1.62 to 5.00
Hungary	23555	161.5	69.8	6.08	5.68 to 6.52	6.12	5.70 to 6.57	4.57	2.93 to 7.14	6.69	3.77 to 11.90
Czech Republic	15059	89.5	40.5	6.02	5.53 to 6.56	6.12	5.61 to 6.68	3.76	2.45 to 5.78	7.29	4.02 to 13.24
Poland	38946	113.2	52.8	4.57	4.36 to 4.80	4.55	4.33 to 4.78	4.20	3.35 to 5.27	6.90	5.05 to 9.43
Lithuania	4501	140.3	82.8	2.76	2.45 to 3.12	2.63	2.31 to 2.99	3.91	2.52 to 6.04	6.83	2.69 to 17.33
Estonia	4645	217.8	121.8	3.08	2.74 to 3.45	3.11	2.77 to 3.50	2.11	1.14 to 3.91	3.14	1.51 to 6.51
All countries	148496	75.8	45.8	3.34	3.26 to 3.41	3.30	3.22 to 3.38	3.54	3.07 to 4.07	4.50	4.00 to 5.05

D. Acute conditions
Country	Total avoidable acute conditions					Appendicitis, hernia, ulcer		Cholecystitis
	N	ASMR		RII^*	95% CI	RII	95% CI	RII	95% CI
	N	Lower education	Higher education	RII^*	95% CI	RII	95% CI	RII	95% CI
Finland	1479	9.1	4.4	5.21	4.06 to 6.67	5.28	4.05 to 6.88	4.72	2.38 to 9.36
Sweden	1265	5.0	2.6	3.77	3.03 to 4.68	3.82	3.02 to 4.84	3.44	1.92 to 6.16
Norway	597	5.1	3.0	3.62	2.61 to 5.02	3.89	2.72 to 5.56	2.46	1.09 to 5.55
Denmark	632	7.0	4.4	3.28	2.36 to 4.55	3.23	2.26 to 4.61	3.60	1.56 to 8.30
Belgium	811	4.0	2.4	3.03	2.22 to 4.14	3.02	2.13 to 4.28	3.08	1.50 to 6.32
Switzerland	600	3.4	2.1	3.97	2.87 to 5.50	3.94	2.76 to 5.63	4.13	1.89 to 9.05
Turin	170	4.0	1.5	5.80	2.92 to 11.54
Barcelona	210	3.0	2.3	2.29	1.27 to 4.14	2.40	1.20 to 4.83	2.03	0.67 to 6.14
Madrid region	80	2.6	2.7	1.98	0.77 to 5.13	3.39	0.98 to 11.69
Basque region	105	1.9	2.4	1.55	0.58 to 4.09	0.92	0.30 to 2.80	5.74	0.74 to 44.55
Slovenia	626	9.2	6.3	2.98	2.22 to 4.00	3.05	2.23 to 4.18	2.50	1.09 to 5.71
Hungary	2086	14.2	6.8	5.19	4.15 to 6.49	5.63	4.43 to 7.17	2.81	1.56 to 5.09
Czech Republic	1438	8.4	3.6	7.72	5.83 to 10.22	7.32	5.45 to 9.82	12.29	4.84 to 31.21
Poland	2879	8.6	3.5	6.64	5.53 to 7.98	6.61	5.44 to 8.03	6.67	3.82 to 11.62
Lithuania	357	13.4	6.9	2.75	1.79 to 4.22	2.99	1.87 to 4.79	1.72	0.60 to 4.89
Estonia	303	17.2	7.9	3.36	2.13 to 5.29	3.94	2.41 to 6.44	1.23	0.38 to 3.98
All countries	13638	7.3	3.9	4.50	4.17 to 4.86	4.63	4.27 to 5.03	3.62	2.96 to 4.43

↵* Adjusted for age and sex.
↵† Lower education group is a combination of primary or no education and lower secondary education; higher education group is a combination of upper secondary education and tertiary education.