HRS 1017 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mortality Rate, Degenerative Disease, Time Point

• School: Pitt
• Department: Health and Rehabilitation Scs
• Course: HRS 1017
• Professor: Thomas Songer

Document Summary

Delayed degenerative disease and emerging infections (hybristic) One approach is to communicate its frequency of occurrence. Mortality: one of the major measures of disease in the population. Information available from dead certificates (required by law) Death rate: number of deaths in the populations/ number at risk of dying. Number of deaths occurring in that population group during that time period. Specific rates consider differences among subgroups of the population. Get information on the number of heart disease deaths in 2010. Get information on the us population in 2010. Number of heart disease deaths in 2010/ us population in 2010. Crude death rate= number of deaths in time period/ total population. Specific rates= number of deaths in age group in time period/ population in age group. A measure that refers to mortality from a given disease divided by the population size at the midpoint of a time period times a multiplier.