Introduction to Epidemiology 6th Edition by Ray M Merrill

Exercise 5

Infant mortality and maternal mortality are two of the most commonly used health status indicators. Why?

For questions 6 through 10 refer to Table 1.

Table 1 Deaths Attributed to Suicide and Self-Inflicted Injuries for White and Black Males in the United States, 2008

	Whites		Blacks
	Deaths	Population	Deaths	Population
0–4	0	8,305,643	0	1,739,648
5–9	0	8,079,129	0	1,618,841
10–14	118	7,992,228	20	1,662,938
15–19	1050	8,603,214	156	1,832,569
20–24	1889	8,640,136	269	1,665,660
25–29	1871	8,647,489	226	1,555,131
30–34	1791	7,844,099	197	1,292,257
35–39	2177	8,400,242	165	1,320,645
40–44	2458	8,679,863	162	1,320,955
45–49	2984	9,313,579	151	1,326,423
50–54	2846	8,784,457	123	1,168,570
55–59	2330	7,608,166	87	924,898
60–64	1683	6,237,564	57	643,659
65–69	1191	4,597,749	43	453,109
70–74	972	3,456,506	44	344,704
75–79	914	2,795,099	27	246,490
80–84	831	2,045,516	18	155,026
85+	691	1,551,927	11	96,135

Data are from the National Center for Health Statistics. Available at: www.cdc.gov/nchs.

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Infants from birth to the period of 1 year are considered in infant mortality rate. This usually represents the health status of a population or a country. Infant mortality rate can be formulated as: