Each of the following statements suggests a common epidemiologic measure. Identi
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Each of the following statements suggests a common epidemiologic measure. Identify the rate or proportion for each item below. Be as detailed as possible. For instance, if you choose prevalence, incidence or infant mortality indicate the type: (point or period prevalence; cumulative incidence or incidence density; neonatal or post-neonatal mortality).
1) Malaria accounted for 42% of all deaths among children under 5 in the West African nation of Burkina Faso.
2) About 217 white infants, and about 340 black infants died for every 1,000 who were born in the U.S. in 1850.
3) In Somalia over 1,000 mothers die for every 100,000 births from complications related to childbirth.
4) At the time of the survey, there were 243 privately owned rifles per 1,000 population in British Columbia and 262 per 1,000 in Washington State.
5) The state with the highest suicide rate is Wyoming, where 23.2 people kill themselves for every 100,000 people, approximately double the national rate.
6) About 4.05 infants died before reaching 28 days per 1,000 born alive in the United States in 2010.
7) About 6.6% of Americans reported having major depressive disorder at some time over the past year, while 16.2% have had the disorder at some time in their lives.
8) There were about 62.5 infants born alive for every woman between the ages of 15 and 44 in the United States in 2013, the lowest ever recorded.
9) In the U.S. in 2013 about 8.2 people died from all causes for every 1,000 Americans.
10) In a study of 3,733 Pima Indians, 26.5 new cases of diabetes mellitus for every 1,000 person-years were diagnosed over a 10-year period, the highest rate known to the authors.
11) Nearly 40.6% of those having a heart attack died within 28 days of onset in one British study.
12) In the tiny African nation of Burundi, it is estimated that in 2016, 41.7 infants were born alive for every 1,000 people.
13) In Jamaica, each woman had an average of 1.99 children in 2016.
14) According to the Beaver Dam Eye Study, conducted in Beaver Dam, WI, 9 middle-aged and older adults (aged 43-86 when the study began) developed late stage age-related macular degeneration for every 1,000 people over 5 years.
15) Among American Indians and Alaskan Natives in 2010, 4 infants died between 28 days and one year of age, representing 48% of infant mortality in that ethnic group.
Explanation / Answer
1.) Period prevalence; because Prevalence is contrasted with incidence, which is a measure of new cases arising in a population over a given period.
2.) post-neonatal mortality;
3.) Point Prevalence;
4.) Point Prevalence
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