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Showing 1 to 20 of 632 for “"Mortality rates"”.
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Analysis of community cancer mortality rates
… a means to discover if distributions of cancer mortality rates among communities within a particular state, for any of the most common forms of cancer, were compatible with chance. To this end cancer mortality data for six of the largest states in the United States (California, Florida, …
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Reproductive Injustice: Abortion Restrictions and Maternal Mortality Rates
… significant connection between maternal mortality rates and abortion restrictions from a reproductive injustice perspective, integrating the theory of necropolitics. Using a time-series cross-sectional analysis of all 50 U.S. states from 2009 to 2019, this study highlights the impact of …
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The Cuban Experience: Comparative of Health Systems and Infant Mortality Rates
… influence our country’s respectively high infant mortality rates. Infant mortality rates are affected by a range of social determinants of health, low birth weight, and racial disparities. This paper addresses the United States’ and Cuban models of healthcare through a comparative lens to …
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Testing the orphanhood method against benchmark mortality rates in South Africa since 1996
… Community Survey to test the orphanhood method mortality estimates against consensus estimates of mortality produced using other methods. In all the two censuses and the survey there were questions on the survival status of the respondent’s biological parents. The orphanhood method is widely …
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Gun Violence in Black and White: State Gun Laws and Race-Specific Mortality Rates
… prohibitions—and firearm homicide and suicide rates among Blacks and Whites in the United States. Using eighteen years of publicly available data, the study examined relationships employing a generalized difference-in-difference linear regression model with fixed effects for states and years. …
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AN EXAMINATION OF MORTALITY RATES OF MISSOULA COUNTY AS COMPARED TO STATE AND NATIONAL LEVELS
… of current methodologies for assessing mortality rates among spatially diverse human populations has importance to the field of Health Geography. By comparing the death rates of Missoula County Montana, the State of Montana, and the United States by using crude and age-adjusted mortality …
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AN EXAMINATION OF MORTALITY RATES OF MISSOULA COUNTY AS COMPARED TO STATE AND NATIONAL LEVELS
… of current methodologies for assessing mortality rates among spatially diverse human populations has importance to the field of Health Geography. By comparing the death rates of Missoula County Montana, the State of Montana, and the United States by using crude and age-adjusted mortality …
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ESTIMATION OF MORTALITY RATES FOR THE GULF MENHADEN STOCK AND REFERENCE POINT IMPLEMENTATION FOR THE FISHERY
… two studies. I first addressed the natural mortality rates currently used in the Gulf menhaden stock assessment. To update these rates, I used data from a tagging study conducted from 1970 to 1988. Adult and juvenile menhaden were tagged, released, and recovered in fish processing plants. To …
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The estimation and interpretation of adult mortality rates of African South Africans using Census 2001 data
This research develops estimates of mortality rates for adult Africans in South Africa for the twelve months preceding the census night, 9/10 October 2Q(B, using Census 2001 10% sample data. The approach used to estimate these rates follow the work done by Dorrington, Moultrie and Timaeus (2004) …
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Growth and mortality rates of sardine (Sardinops sagax) pre-recruits in the Southern Benguela region during early 2001
… identify cohorts, and, (4) to analyze growth and mortality of sardine larvae and juveniles in the Southern Benguela region during early 2001.
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Nervous system cancer : analysis of historical mortality rates in the United States and Japan indicate sudden increases in environmental risk
Nervous System cancer age-specific mortality rates began being recorded for European and Non-European Americans in 1930 and for Japanese in 1952. All ethnic groups show significant historical increases in mortality rates. For the two American data sets, the age- specific pattern for mortality seems …
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Availability Of & Access to Prenatal Care & The Effects On Maternal & Infant Mortality Rates: A Comparison of Central American Countries, Costa Rica & Guatemala
… prenatal care and both the maternal and infant mortality rates are comparable to more developed countries with significantly higher rates of economic development and higher spending on healthcare per capita. In juxtaposition, the lack of prenatal care within Guatemala’s health care system is a …
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Risk adjusted mortality rates : Do they differ if bases on administrative data (hospital standardised mortality ratio) versus a physiological predictive model (APACHE IV ®)?
… predictive model (Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratio [HSMR]) with a physiological predictive model (APACHE ®IV) to determine the correlation in the predicted risk adjusted mortality rates. To determine whether stratifying the patients into low (<10%), medium (<50%) or high (>80%) risk …
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Estimates of the level and shape of mortality rates in South Africa around 1985 and 1990 derived by applying indirect demographic techniques to reported deaths
… to estimate both the level and shape of the mortality curve of the Black South African population group circa 1985 by the application of indirect demographic techniques to the reported deaths for Blacks for the period 1984- 86 and an estimate of the Black population in mid-1985. The life …
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Estimating the level and trends of child mortality in South Africa, 1996-2006
The lack of reliable data for child mortality estimation since 1998 has meant that child mortality rates for South Africa have not been updated for almost ten years now. It is the overall aim of this research to explore the possibility of determining up-to-date estimates of South Africa's infant …
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Spatial analysis of child mortality in South Africa in relation to poverty and inequality : evidences from the 2011 census
Subnational estimates of child mortality are difficult to produce and are rare in Sub- Saharan Africa. It is the overall aim of this research to derive estimates of child mortality rates for the municipalities and provinces of South Africa using the 2011 census data, and to assess the results in …
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Bacterial pneumonia hospitalization and pneumonia inpatient mortality in Texas, 1999-2007
… hospitalization and pneumonia inpatient mortality rates of older Texans during 1999-2007, and identifies the associated individual and contextual factors. \r\nThe data were from the Texas Hospital Discharge data during 1999-2007, linked with US Census data and Area Resource File. Observed …
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Innovation's Impact on County-Level Population Health
… from 2010 - 2014 on all-cause and specific type mortality rates per 100,000 per county was analyzed. Previous studies have only looked at this relationship at a national or regional level. Here innovation is found to have a statistically significant impact on affecting mortality rates at the …
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