Community Data Profiles
compare local areas with the state on various indicators.
The principal Community Data Profile for death data is the Leading
Cause of Death Profile.
Other Community Data Profiles which include death data are:
Assault Injury
Child Health
Chronic Disease
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Infant Health
Infectious Disease
Minority Health
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Self-Inflicted Injury
Unintentional Injury
Women’s Health |
The Death MICA allows users to create
their own tables by cause of death, age, race, sex, ethnicity
and geographic area.
The annual Vital Statistics publications
contain numerous tables and graphs showing death data. Some of
the tables are similar to those which could be created using the
MICA. Commonly requested data not in the MICA include:
- Tables showing the ranked
leading causes of death statewide for all residents combined,
separately for Hispanics, and by race (white, black, and other)
and by age group
- Number of births and deaths for cities with population 2,500
or greater
- Tables by cause of death for cities with 25,000 or more population
- Life expectancy tables statewide and by sex.
- Tables and graphs showing death rates statewide from 1911
to the year of the report
- Tables and graphs concerning infant deaths, including numbers
for counties and for cities over 25,000 population, rates for
Regional Planning Commission areas and statewide, and statewide
tables by birth order and cause.
The Priorities MICA includes numbers
of deaths and death trends among its criteria for ranking health
needs.
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“Cause of death” refers to the underlying cause of
death. That is the disease or injury which initiated the chain
of events leading directly to death, or the circumstances of the
accident or violence which produced the fatal injury.
Causes of death are classified in accordance with the International
Classification of Diseases (ICD). Effective with deaths in
1999, a change
in the ICD affected which cause would be chosen for some deaths.
Rates of death are usually expressed per 100,000 population.
Since age is the greatest risk factor for death, death rates are
frequently adjusted to compensate
for difference in the ages of populations.
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