Epidemiology: Mortality Rates
that 4,739 deaths occurred in the U.S. during 2000 when a pedestrian was struck
and killed by a motor vehicle. They estimate that 78,000 pedestrians were
injured in pedestrian/motor-vehicle collisions during the year. The population
of the United States that year was 281,421,906.
Show all steps in your calculations below.
1) Based on
these data, what was the case fatality rate of pedestrian/motor-vehicle
collision injury in 2000? Express this as a percentage.
2) What was
the cause specific mortality rate for pedestrian/vehicle collisions that year?
Express this per 100,000.
3) If there
were a total of 2,448,117 deaths from all causes that year in the United
States, what would the proportionate mortality for pedestrian motor-vehicle
collisions be? Express this as a percentage.
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