Question

Discuss reasons why crude mortality rates for cancer and heart disease would be higher in Florida than in other states. What types of rates would provide more accurate information and why?

Answer 1

Reasons for crush mortality rate from heart diseases:

Heart diseases occurs due to,

Coronary artery disease

Cancer

Smoking

Stress

Diabetes

Obesity

Excess intake of alcohol and coffee

These risk factor put the person under the risk of heart disease, this may cause myocardial infarction that may cause sudden cardiac arrest and death.

By this way it increases the crude death rate.

Cancer:

Diet

Smoking

Excess stress

Exposure to sun and other type of radiation

Use of cosmetics

Certain drugs

Lack of physical activities

These factors may contribute the development of cancer.

Cancer makes severe electrolytes disturbances, secondaries also common, cancer suppress the immune system, opportunity infections are more, by this way it causes death.

What type of rate?

Crude mortality rate provides accurate information.

Why?

1. Crude mortality rate is simple as well as straight forward.

2. Its actually summary rate.

3. Readily available.

4. It eliminates the confounding factors.

So crude mortality rate is best.