UOP Communications Death Causes Over the Past Century Paper

Week One Assignment[WLOs: 3, 4] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4]
This week’s assignment will focus on changes in the causes of death over the past
century and help you develop skill in calculating important epidemiological statistics. To
answer the assignment questions, refer to your required readings and to Table 2A-1,
which appears on Page 103 of the Friis and Sellers (2014) textbook and is reproduced
below.
Table 2A–1
Leading Causes of Death and Rates for Those Causes in 1900 and 2009,
United States
Rate per 100,000 Population
Rank
Cause of Death1
1900
20092
All causes
1,719.1
793.7
1
Influenza and
pneumonia, except
pneumonia of
newborn
202.2
17.5
2
Tuberculosis, all
forms
194.4
NA3
3
Diarrhea and enteritis 139.9
NA
4
Disease of heart
137.4
195.0
5
Cerebrovascular
diseases
106.9
41.9
6
Chronic nephritis
81.0
15.9
1900
7
Accidents and
adverse effects
72.3
38.2
8
Malignant neoplasms 64.0
185.2
9
Senility
50.2
NA
10
Diphtheria
40.3
NA
In your Week One assignment, please answer the following questions:
A. Calculate the percentage decline in the death rate for all causes. What
generalizations can be made about changes in disease rates that have
occurred between 1900 and the present?
B. Contrast the changes in death rates due to cancer, heart disease, and
cerebrovascular diseases. What additional information would be useful to
better specify the changes in these conditions? Calculate the percentage
decline in the death rate for all causes. What generalizations can be made
about changes in disease rates that have occurred between 1900 and the
present?
C. Note the decline in mortality for the four communicable diseases (rankings 1,
2, 3, and 10) since 1900. With the exception of pneumonia and influenza,
these are no longer among the 10 leading causes of death. Can you
speculate regarding how much of each is due to environmental improvements
and how much is due to specific preventive and curative practices?
D. Among the 10 leading causes of death in 2009 were chronic lower respiratory
diseases (44.7 per 100,000—rank 3), diabetes (22.3 per 100,000—rank 7),
Alzheimer’s disease (25.7 per 100,000—rank 6), and suicide (11.9 per
100,000—rank 10). (Note: Data are not shown in Table 2A–1.) In 1900, these
were not among the 10 leading causes of death. How do you account for
these changes?
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