Category: Deaths
New Infant Mortality Report
The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics has released a new report on infant mortality that has a lot of good news and some troubling numbers, too. The lede: The infant mortality rate in the United States in 2004 was 6.78 infant (under 1 year of age) deaths per 1,000 live births, not significantly different Read More >
Posted on byUnintentional Injuries and Death
Every week the NCHS contributes a feathure called QuickStats to the CDC professional journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). For the week of April 6, 2007 the feature was entitled Percentage Change in Death Rates for the Leading Causes of Unintentional Injury, by Mechanism of Injury — United States, 1999–2004. During 1999–2004, age-adjusted unintentional injury Read More >
Posted on byFirearms deaths
We are all horrified by the senseless murders at Virginia Tech at Blacksburg, VA. Historically, homicide has been the second leading cause of death among the young people of college agent following unintentional injuries. Deaths from firearms among 18-22 year olds: Year Deaths Rate 1999 2,442 12.54 2000 2,482 12.52 2001 2,614 12.82 2002 2,658 Read More >
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