Database: DHIR National Mortality Register (Malta)

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Sponsor, manager or home institution: Directorate for Health Information and Research; Ministry for Health.

Primary purpose: To collect and store internationally recognized data on deaths occurring on the Islands of Malta and Gozo, analyze it, and provide information for health policies, epidemiological studies, research, parliament, media, and international organizations.

Available type of information: causes of death; number of deaths, Mortality rate; Type of place of death; Deaths due to malignancy; Leading causes of death; age; sex; year. More information [1] in Annual Reports. Data dictionary is not publicly available.

Source of Information: Death certificates.

Data level: patient level.

Available data level: national level.

Number of Records: Number of deaths each year available in the reports.

Date Range: 1872 onwards.

Available date range: 1998 to 2019.

Cancer Areas of Interest: unknown.

Data access: partially publicly available [2]. Instructions to request data for restricted content [3].

Contact information: Information [4].