Bonus: (3 points) We discussed in class today, a study by the Department of the

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Bonus: (3 points) We discussed in class today, a study by the Department of the authors as "deaths of despair" -i.c., deaths st drinking by nearly 40%) Oterf e deaths stemming from suicide (rates increased by 50%) and liver disease (assocated with Public Health at East Carolina University, that found a 6 percent rise in ainlong white men ages 45 to 54 in North Carolina. This trend in increasing mortality is referred to by of medical insurance. Highest published in the North Carolina Medical Journal. ctors contributing to this increase in mortality include heart disease, lung cancer, diabetes, and lack rates of mortality were found in state's most economically distressed counties. These findings were #1. This "6% calculated). ncrease in mortality" is which type of mortality rate? (In Chapter 4, we learnt of many different ways mortality rates are m #2. If 40% of the deaths were from liver disease, what type of mortality rate is this? #3. Given the various causes or this increase in mortality, Make up your own data, and create a question/problem that will the class (your colleagues) to calculate either Relative Risk (RR) or Attributable risk (AR above. for any one of the risk factors discussed

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1. this is age-specific mortality rate.this is because rate of occurrence of death is there in a particular age group .

This is among white men ages 45-54 in North Carolina.

2.Case fatality ratio,death due to given cause/total cases of a disease

here liver disease ,specially associated with drinking is nearly 40%

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