Open AccessMEASURING RODS OF MORTALITY RATES
Author(s) -
Dwight M. Lewis
Publication year - 1921
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2330-9687
pISSN - 0271-4353
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.11.9.825
Subject(s) - environmental health , mortality rate , medicine , demography , statistics , mathematics , surgery , sociology
Determination of constant factors is of fundamental importance in vital statistics. Possibilities of measuring the role of filthborne and respiratory diseases in crude death rates are here shown. The relative values of the constants of these two types of disease offer food for thought in preventive health administration.