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?
Not exact matches
In contrast,
overall death rates have continued to
decline for middle - aged folk in industrialized Europe, and among African Americans and Hispanics in the U.S.
As the
overall rate of under - five mortality has
declined, the proportion of neonatal
deaths (during the first month of life) comprises an increasing proportion of all child
deaths.
During this time, sudden, unexpected infant
death rates overall remained relatively stable, with a possible trend downward after 2003, and
deaths attributable to SIDS actually
declined.
The study by researchers in Italy and Switzerland predicts that although the actual number of
deaths from all cancers in the European Union will continue to rise due to growing populations and numbers of elderly people, the
rate of cancer
deaths will continue to
decline overall, with some notable exceptions: lung cancer in women and pancreatic cancer in both sexes.
Deaths from heart disease and stroke are
declining overall in Europe, but at differing
rates, according to research, published online in the European Heart Journal.
Overall, the researchers say that CVD
death rates are
declining in most, but not all European countries.
In the UK, although the
rate of child
deaths per 1000 births
declined overall between 1990 and 2013, but the
rate of
decline has slowed, and in 2000 - 2013 was half that seen in the previous decade (1990 - 2000).
While
overall mortality
rates of CHD have been
declining in the U.S., the number of CHD
deaths in the diabetic population has escalated as the prevalence of the disease has increased.
The annual report to the nation on the status of cancer in the United States, published Monday, shows cancer
death rates overall continue to
decline.
An additional graph (figure 4) shows that total NIH funding trends and national
death rate trends can be closely correlated, even to the extent that periods of rapid or slow growth in NIH budgets correlate with rapid or slow
declines in
overall death rates.
The study from the American Journal of Epidemiology shows that while car accident fatalities
overall have been in a steady
decline for years, the
death rate for less educated members of our society have gone up.
Since the 1990s, the
overall death rate of cancer patients in the United States has
declined.
While the
overall traffic
death and injury
rate in Trinity County
declined between 2011 and 2012 (the latest year for which there are figures), the
rates are still too high.