Question

1. The following table gives sample mortality statistics for Alabama. After reviewing the health status indicators and mortality data, calculate the following mortality rates:
   1. Crude death rate

b.    Maternal mortality rate

      c.   Age-specific mortality rate for persons age 55 years or older

d.   Cause-specific mortality rates for those who died from heart disease

e.   Cause-specific mortality rates for those who died from malignant neoplasms

Answer 1

Answer:

Given that:

After reviewing the health status indicators and mortality data.

a)

Crude death rate = the number of deaths in a year per 1000 people

death per year per 1000 people

b)

Maternal mortality rate

maternal deaths

[We can also interpret as 0.17 per 1000 live births]

c)

Age specific mortality rate for persons age 55 years or older

  

  

d)

Cause specific death rate(mortality rate)

   For heart disease

[We can also interpret this as 2.70 per 1000]

e)

Cause specific mortality rate for those who died from malignant neoplasm

  

[We can also interpret as 2.12 per 1000]