Fig. 1From: New ways of estimating excess mortality of chronic diseases from aggregated data: insights from the illness-death modelIllness-death model. The transition rates i (incidence), r (remission), m0 (mortality of the healthy), m1 (mortality of the diseased) between the compartments depend on calendar time t and age a. In case of chronic diseases, there is no way back from the Ill state to the Healthy state (dashed line). Then, the remission rate r equals zeroBack to article page