Region
Table MESO05 
[1] shows standardised mesothelioma death rates per million by 3-year time period, government office region and sex. The period 2006-2008 was taken as the base for standardisation over time and Great Britain for standardisation over region. Thus the standardisation allows for changes in the age-structure of the underlying population over time and between regions.
[1] shows standardised mesothelioma death rates per million by 3-year time period, government office region and sex. The period 2006-2008 was taken as the base for standardisation over time and Great Britain for standardisation over region. Thus the standardisation allows for changes in the age-structure of the underlying population over time and between regions.In Great Britain mesothelioma death rates for both males and females follow an upward trend over time - reaching 62.3 and 11.6 deaths per million respectively in 2006-2008 compared with 20.2 and 3.3 in 1982-1984. Overall for males, upward trends were evident in the rates over the period for most regions, although rates have fallen slightly in the most recent 3-year period in the North East, West Midlands, South East and Scotland. There is some evidence that rates for the different regions are converging over time in that regions with the lowest rates in earlier periods tend to increase most, and those with higher rates increase to a lesser extent. Although the numbers of cases are much smaller for females and so the pattern in the rates over time is more erratic, an upward trend is fairly clear in all regions. More detailed mesothelioma statistics by region are available in three separate fact sheets[2].
Occupation
Mesothelioma death statistics for males and females and relative mortality for different occupational groups 2002-2005 are available in the fact sheet[3] (Mesothelioma deaths - the latest picture for Great Britain: Geographical Analysis 1981-2005 and Occupational Analysis 2002-2005). The analysis shows that a number of occupations associated with the construction industry - such as carpenters, plumbers and electricians - are recorded much more frequently than expected on death certificates of men now dying from mesothelioma. This highlights the effect of past occupational asbestos exposures due to the use of asbestos containing materials in the construction industry.
Occupational analyses of female mesothelioma deaths are more difficult to interpret because a lower proportion are caused directly by occupational exposures. Few occupations are recorded more frequently than expected on deaths certificates, but there are a number of occupations recorded on appreciable numbers of mesothelioma death certificates, for example, cleaners and domestics, sales and retail assistants, and office workers. To some extent such deaths will be a reflection of an increase in “background” cases with no recognised occupational cause, but nevertheless resulting from exposures that occurred because of the widespread use of asbestos as a building product in the past. The extent to which such groups are suggestive of genuine occupational exposures is not clear. Source : http://www.hse.gov.uk permits to republish here.
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