"The annual mortality statistics published by the Office for National Statistics provide vital clues for health experts - and those who specialise in the prevention of accidents.
It's part of a package of data released at the end of last week, which also showed us that pilots and aircrew suffer from significantly higher rates of skin cancer than other professions.
It gives us a real picture of risk. We may worry about swine flu, for instance - but the big killers of heart disease and cancer are much more significant in terms of public health."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/nov/02/causes-of-death-mortality-rates
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=15096
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