Table 1.

Causes of death considered amenable to health care

		International classification of diseases
Cause of death	Age	9th revision	10th revision
Intestinal infections	0-14	001-9	A00-9
Tuberculosis	0-74	010-8, 137	A15-9, B90
Other infections (diphtheria, tetanus, poliomyelitis)	0-74	032, 037, 045	A36, A35, A80
Whooping cough	0-14	033	A37
Septicaemia	0-74	038	A40-1
Measles	1-14	055	B05
Malignant neoplasm of colon and rectum	0-74	153-4	C18-21
Malignant neoplasm of skin	0-74	173	C44
Malignant neoplasm of breast	0-74	174	C50
Malignant neoplasm of cervix uteri	0-74	180	C53
Malignant neoplasm of cervix uteri and body of uterus	0-44	179, 182	C54, C55
Malignant neoplasm of testis	0-74	186	C62
Hodgkin's disease	0-74	201	C81
Leukaemia	0-44	204-8	C91-5
Diseases of the thyroid	0-74	240-6	E00-7
Diabetes mellitus	0-49	250	E10-4
Epilepsy	0-74	345	G40-1
Chronic rheumatic heart disease	0-74	393-8	I05-9
Hypertensive disease	0-74	401-5	I10-3, I15
Cerebrovascular disease	0-74	430-8	I60-9
All respiratory diseases (excluding pneumonia and influenza)	1-14	460-79, 488-519	J00-9, J20-99
Influenza	0-74	487	J10-1
Pneumonia	0-74	480-6	J12-8
Peptic ulcer	0-74	531-3	K25-7
Appendicitis	0-74	540-3	K35-8
Abdominal hernia	0-74	550-3	K40-6
Cholelithiasis and cholecystitis	0-74	574-5.1	K80-1
Nephritis and nephrosis	0-74	580-9	N00-7, N17-9, N25-7
Benign prostatic hyperplasia	0-74	600	N40
Maternal death	All	630-76	O00-99
Congenital cardiovascular anomalies	0-74	745-7	Q20-8
Perinatal deaths, all causes, excluding stillbirths	All	760-79	P00-96, A33
Misadventures to patients during surgical and medical care	All	E870-6, E878-9	Y60-9, Y83-4
Ischaemic heart disease*	0-74	410-4	I20-5

^*See text.