Gender: Health - Methodology

Tuberculosis (TB) – The number of notified diseases includes newly notified diseases including relapses in the relevant year; included are pulmonary tuberculosis (which make up almost 90 % of all diseases) and TB of other organs.

Deaths: analysed by cause – On 1 January 1994 the 10th decennial revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10), formerly the International Classification of Diseases, Injuries and Causes of death (ICDICD), was put into use in the CR by Act 278/1992 of the Czech National Council. The organization responsible for its use in practice is the Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the CR. Unlike its 9th revision, the ICD-10 uses a four-character alphanumerical code consisting of one letter and three digits. However, a three-character alpha numerical code is employed for basic statistical treatment. The range of the causes of dead has been considerably expanded, and the names and the order of cause of death have been changed, too. There is no full comparability between ICD-9 and ICD-10.