Prepared by: Victoria Zakrajšek, Tatjana Kofol Bric 
Date of last change: March 2019

Purpose and justification of the indicator

Cancer is a disease that increasingly burdens humanity and is becoming the main cause of death in the developed world. In Slovenia, like in other European countries, cancer ranks second among the causes of death. It is in the first place among men. Every year, one in five inhabitants of Slovenia gets cancer. The incidence of all cancers is gradually increasing and has almost doubled in the last twenty years. As the population ages, the risk of developing cancer also increases. Therefore, cancer is an important public health, social and economic problem of modern society, and the management of this disease will require more and more attention.
It is still true that almost half of all cancers could be prevented by a healthy lifestyle, regular participation in cancer screening programs, as well as by living in a less polluted living and working environment. A healthy lifestyle also protects against other chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, obesity. Therefore, we can say that cancer is not only a problem of healthcare, but of the entire society and country. Active and continuous involvement of professionals in every phase of patient management can reduce the burden of cancer morbidity and mortality in the long term. The success and effectiveness of the efforts of health policy and health care services to control cancer can only be objectively evaluated with adequate data on the burden of these various diseases and its changes over time.

Definition of indicator

The all-cancer mortality rate describes cancer deaths before the age of 75 per 100,000 population in an observed calendar year.
An age-standardized rate is calculated, which enables mutual comparison of populations with different age structures.
Unlike the standard calculation of mortality by usual place of residence, for the purpose of display in Health in the municipalities, the municipality of the last permanent residence is taken into account. If there is no permanent residence in the official records, the last temporary residence is taken into account.

Unit of measure

Calculation of the indicator

The standardized death rate from all types of cancer is the ratio between the number of deaths from cancer before the age of 75 in the observed calendar year and the number of the population aged 0 to 74 inclusive in the middle of the same year, multiplied by 100,000.
Disease categories according to the ICD-10 classification, which are included in the calculation, are C00-C97.
Mortality from all types of cancer
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The direct standardization method is used to calculate the age-standardized rate, where the Slovenian population from 2014 is used as the standard population. The publications show the average of several consecutive ones.

Data sources for Slovenia

Death Database, National Institute of Public Health.
Population, Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia.

Time availability

Data on mortality from all types of cancer are published annually.

Men in literature

<ol>
<li>National Institute of Public Health ( <a href="http://www.nijz.si/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.nijz.si/</a> )</li>
<li>Health for All Database ( <a href="http://data.euro.who.int/hfadb/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://data.euro.who.int/hfadb/</a> )</li>
</ol>

Notes

The deceased are classified by municipality according to their last place of permanent residence. If there is no permanent residence, they are classified by temporary residence. This is to a large extent correcting the impact on mortality by municipality that the registration of temporary residence in the period before death at the temporary address of the Home for the Elderly in another municipality has.
In the 2016, 2017 and 2018 publications, mortality is shown by usual residence.

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