GEOG 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Life Table
11 Nov 2018
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Mortality refers to deaths that occur within a population. The probability of dying during a given time is linked to many factors, such as, age, sex, race, occupation and social class. The incidence of death can reveal so much about a population"s standard of living and health care. Crude death rate: the numbers of death per thousand population in a given year. Number of deaths/ total population x 1,000 = death rate. What: age-adjustment is a statistical process applied to rates of disease, death, injuries or other health outcomes which allows communities with different age structures to be compared. Why: almost all diseases or health outcomes occur at different rates in different age groups. The average time someone is expected to live. Usually implied from birth (sometimes you see life expectancy at age 5) The life table one of the most power tools in demography is used to simulate a population"s lifetime mortality experience.
