Sentences with phrase «deaths by age group»

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In a study of flu - related deaths between 1997 and 2007, published by the American Journal of Epidemiology, a group of researchers found that mortality was more common in men than women across multiple age - groups, regardless of underlying conditions.

The faith - group programs, representing Protestant, Catholics, and Jews, have consistently provided documentaries, dramas, and discussions which dealt with issues almost never touched by commercial broadcasting: the economic factors behind nuclear armaments; the issues behind draft evasion (during the Vietnam War); the real causes of worldwide starvation; and the problems of people who are ignored almost completely by the media, such as the aging who can not live on their pensions, unwed mothers, farm workers who have no homes, undocumented aliens whom we wish to employ but not pay, and refugees we are sending back to certain death in their own countries.

The big puzzle left unanswered by Case and Deaton is the «why» question: Why have the rates of these types of death increased for this age group of white Americans, but have continued to decline for Hispanics and African Americans (although the absolute death rate for African Americans remains shockingly high even as overall death rates decline), and have continued to decline for Europeans?

I have been told by many that the teen years pose the greatest challenge for parents of food allergic kids — and to teens themselves since their age group has the highest rate of death due to anaphylaxis.

The Court of Appeals upheld a $ 3 million verdict in the asbestos - related death of a former pipefitter at General Motor Co.'s engine plant in Tonawanda, who died at age 77 in 2011, well before the decision, which was anxiously awaited by industry and business groups across the country.

The results of the study by Marc Baguelin and colleagues from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the UK, Public Health England, and Athens University of Economics and Business, show that the current flu vaccination policy that targets people aged 65 years and over and also those in high risk groups has reduced the number of flu infections and associated deaths in these groups over the past 14 years.

If countries have enough vaccine, they can reduce disease and death by vaccinating groups at higher risk, such as pregnant women, those with chronic health conditions, or even all healthy young adults between 15 and 49 years old, the age group that appears most vulnerable.

The original study into sanitation conditions by Edwin Chadwick in 1842 charted the average age by death and by occupational group for five areas in the UK — Liverpool, Leeds, Manchester, Bolton and Rutland, a rural county in Eastern England.

Between 1970 and 2010, female deaths in this age group from cardiovascular disease and diabetes fell on average by 66 % in 11 affluent countries: Chile, France, Germany, Greece, Japan, New Zealand, Mexico, Poland, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, the study showed.

In the biggest effort ever undertaken, a group of scientists in December published the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2010 study, which estimated disease burdens — death as well as years of life affected by disability — for 291 diseases and injuries in 20 age groups in 21 global regions.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

Assuming that the findings of the review reflected a causal relation between smoking cessation and risk of all cause mortality, we further investigated the data by constructing life tables for a hypothetical group of 100 patients aged 65 years with early stage lung cancer to estimate how many deaths would be prevented by smoking cessation within the non-small cell lung cancer and small cell lung cancer populations during five years.

We estimated the risk of death due to cardiorespiratory causes in the general population of 65 - 69 year olds from data from the Office for National Statistics.19 We assumed that this death rate was approximately that of the non-smoking population, because around 12 % of this age group smoke.20 We multiplied this rate by the relative risk of death from cardiorespiratory causes in lifelong smokers to estimate the number of deaths that would be expected over five years from cardiorespiratory causes in the general population of 65 year olds who smoke.

The Subcommittee also proposed adding information on why alcohol should not be consumed by adolescents, with an emphasis on the risk of traumatic injury and death, which is the number one cause of death in that age group.

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Life insurance premium rates are governed by the following factors: • Mortality Rate: is an insurer «s anticipation of deaths amongst a particular group of insured lives at certain ages.

The PMJJBY is targeted towards the age group of 18 - 50 years wherein one can avail death benefits by paying a premium amount that is as low as Rs 330 per annum.

We have all the sample life insurance rates by gender you could want, broken down by age groups, products, and even death benefit amounts listed below.

Charts that show the death rates of a particular group of lives at certain ages, derived from statistics that count deaths in a population by age compared to those still alive at that age.

: Guidance to support country implementation, reveal stark differences in causes of death when separating the adolescent group by age (younger adolescents aged 10 — 14 years and older ones aged 15 — 19 years) and by sex.

SMRs were calculated as follows: standard death rates by five year age group were obtained using ABS Australian death data for 2006 and the ABS estimated resident Australian population for the Census year 2006 [14]; these rates were applied to the ABS estimated Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population NSW 2007 [2] by sex and five year age group and summed to obtain the expected number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths; finally, the ratios of observed number of deaths for the three groups «as reported», the algorithm and «at least one report» were compared to the expected number of deaths to give SMRs for the three groups.

number of deaths in linked records by Census Indigenous status, by state / territory and age groups;

number of deaths in linked records reported as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander in death registrations, by state / territory and age groups;

For all age groups below 65 years, the age - specific death rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians were at least twice those experienced by the non-Indigenous population.37

For all age groups below 65 years, the age - specific death rates for Indigenous peoples were at least twice those experienced by the non-Indigenous population.