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MORTALITY Causes & Consequences (Age-Specific Rates (Infant…
MORTALITY
Causes
&
Consequences
general mortality
cause-specific
age-specific mortality
details are of interest
MEASURING MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY
Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary (25th edition)
total cerebral function
spontaneous function of the circulatory system
spontaneous function of the respiratory system
Morbidity Rate
pr = number of individuals with particular disease/total population size.
Crude Death Rates
CDR = (D/P) × 1,000
central crude death rate
[(Dy–1/Py–1 + Dy/Py + Dy+1/Py+1)/3] × 1,000 = (CDy–1 + CDRy + CDRy+1)/3
Specific Death Rates
DRs = Ds/Ps × 1,000
The Effects of Inequality
These low overall rates mask some important differences that have persisted throughout the course of infant mortality decline in the United States
Age-Specific Rates
Infant mortality rate (IMR), covering the first year of life.
Neonatal mortality rate (NMR), which focuses on the first 28 days of life.
Child mortality rate (CMR), which measures death among persons one to five years old.
Cause-Specific Death in the United States
heart disease, lung cancer, and strokes are three of the leading causes of death in the United State