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Chapter 6: Mortality cause and consequences (Crude Death Rates (It is…
Chapter 6: Mortality cause and consequences
Mortality
when referring to the occurrence of death regardless of
cause of age
cause-specific
age specific mortality
are used when such details are of interest
Measuring morbidity and mortality
the occurrence of illness in population
understanding of the conditions that lead to death is essential in describing and explaning mortality patterns
Two approach
Prevalence
indicate the proportion of individuals in a population who have a specific disease at a particular point in time or during a specified interval
Incidence
the number cases of a disease newly diagnosed during a specified period of time, usually one year
Crude Death Rates
It is defined as the number of deaths that occur in a population during the course of one year for every 1,000 persons at midyear
CDR= (D/P)x 1,000
Central Crude Death Rate
For a specific year
Each of these elements varies somewhat each year, and in combination they cause the CDR to flutuate
Age-Specific Death Rates (ASDRs)
measure the incidence of death among members of the same cohorts
Fetal mortality
involuntary abortion or miscarriage
is death that occurs to a viable fetus whose period of gestation is understood to be twenty weeks or more
Cause-Specific mortality
related to research on morbidity
calculated by dividing the number of deaths in a category by a population base
Stroke Belt
Public Health experts referred to the region
that are preventable but not yet prevented
Suicide
HIV/AIDS
Lung Cancer
Fatal disease of industrial society
Epidemiological Transition
Period and the elimination of the traditional causes of high mortality associated with
First state pandemics
Second state
Receding pandemic
saw a decrease in the prevalence of the disease associated with the first stage