HEALTH INDICIES
Health indicies are critically important to epidemiological study of disease and health trends and thus important to the overall understanding of community health and areas of community health in need of help.
Crude death rates are affected by many population characteristics, particularly age structure2. Age Adjusted Death Rates (AADR) are thus useful, since they eliminate the confounding variable of age. In Zip Code 11105, the death rates from the years 1997 to 1999 according to age breakdown were:
Table 1
Standard Population Exp. deaths NYC per 1000000 Exp. Deaths
Queens per 1000000 Exp. deaths 11105 per 1000000
Age 0-14 214700 228.8284 174.2995 142.2891
Age 15-24 138646 88.10401 57.21468 54.58074
Age 25-34 135573 153.6383 94.49073 98.45057
Age 35-44 162613 437.0423 242.9525 285.6618
Age 45-54 134834 717.6034 435.0099 382.4828
Age 55-64 87247 912.6513 628.3179 556.6589
Age 65-74 66037 1524.299 1106.048 906.6035
Age 75-84 44842 2195.015 1792.483......
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