VSA: Volatile Substance Abuse Mortality in Great Britain, 1971-83.

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Volatile Substance Abuse Mortality in Great Britain, 1971-83.

Description

Mortaility associated with volatile substance abuse (VSA).This study collated all known death associated with VSA from 1971 to 1983 (inclusively).

Usage

VSA

Format

A data frame with 9 observations on the following 4 variables.

age

Age band in nine categories 0-9,10-14,15-19,20-24,25-29,30-39,40-49,50-59,60+.

country

The country in which the deaths were recorded (Great Britain or Scotland).

pop

Population size of the age band.

deaths

The number of deaths associated with VSA per age band.

Details

The data was taken from Bland (2015), who cites Anderson et al (1985) as the source of the data. Note that Scotland is one of the three countries that make up Great Britain, along with England and Wales.

Source

Bland, M., 2015. An introduction to medical statistics. Oxford University Press.

References

Anderson, H.R., Macnair, R.S. and Ramsey, J.D., 1985. Deaths from abuse of volatile substances: a national epidemiological study. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed), 290(6464), pp.304-307.

Examples

data(VSA, package = "R4HCR")

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