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Indicator Report - Death Rates from Leading Causes of Death
Why Is This Important?
Death rates by leading causes of death show areas where health improvement and prevention programs should be targeted to affect the most people.Death Rates for the 10 Leading Causes of Death by Cause of Death, New Mexico 2010
Data Notes
Age-adjusted to U.S. 2000 standard population. The U.S. rate used for comparison is preliminary for 2009, the most recent available.Data Sources
Population Source: Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER) Population Estimates, University of New Mexico. http://www.unm.edu/~bber/.New Mexico Death Data: Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics (BVRHS), New Mexico Department of Health.U.S. Data Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/.Other Views
- by Sex and Cause of Death, New Mexico 2010
- by Year, New Mexico (Ranked by total number of deaths) 2000-2010
- by Age Group, New Mexico (Ranked by total number of deaths) 2008-2010
- by Race and Ethnicity, New Mexico (Ranked by total number of deaths) 2010
Definition
Death rates for the leading causes of death are the number of deaths from each cause per 100,000 New Mexico population, age-adjusted to the U.S. 2000 standard population, and ranked according to the age-adjusted death rate.How We Calculated the Rates
| Numerator: | Number of deaths from the specified cause |
| Denominator: | Total population |
Page Content Updated On 10/03/2011,
Published on 06/14/2012
