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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

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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/.

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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
Community Health Assessment Program, New Mexico Department of Health, Epidemiology and Response Division, 1190 St. Francis Dr., P.O. Box 26110, Santa Fe, NM, 87502. Contact Lois Haggard at Lois.Haggard@state.nm.us or by telephone at (505) 827-5274
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Content updated: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 14:06:32 MDT