Death Rates by Occupation

Age - Adjusted Death Rates by Paul

Mortality or death rates are often used as measures of health status for a population. Population-based incidence or morbidity data are available in North Carolina in a few areas such as cancer and certain communicable diseases, but for most chronic diseases we know only how many people died from the disease and not how many are living with it. Given the importance of data from death certificat...

Death rates versus deaths.

To the Editor: In the October 24, 2000, issue of Circulation, Morrow et al1 present a simple, validated scoring system (1 through 14 points) using clinical variables to measure the risk of mortality after ST-elevation myocardial infarction. In this system, risk rises progressively with higher scores and is maximal for a composite score .8. The authors state that a score .6 identifies a segment ...

Occupation Time Laws for Birth and Death Processes

Gender, Occupation Choice and the Risk of Death at Work

Women and men tend to work in different occupations. There has been substantial movement over the last forty years toward a more even distribution of men and women across occupations, but differences persist. Although a great deal of research has been devoted to the measurement of trends in occupation segregation by gender, very little work has focused on the underlying job choice process that ...

Mortality rates by occupation in Korea: a nationwide, 13-year follow-up study

OBJECTIVE The present study sought to identify inequalities in cause-specific mortality across different occupational groups in Korea. METHODS The cohort included Korean workers enrolled in the national employment insurance programme between 1995 and 2000. Mortality was determined by matching death between 1995 and 2009 according to a nationwide registry of the Korea National Statistical Offi...