U.S Mortality Rates

U.S. Mortality Rates Examine the burden of disease in the United States to provide important information on which parameter is to base decisions on public health priorities. To do this, we will utilize mortality data for the United States. In the first part of this assignment, you will download and examine mortality data for your home state.

Go to

http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/usa-cause-of-death-by-age-and-gender

Choose your home state under the Choose State option (panel on left hand side) Select BOTH under the Choose gender option in the middle panel. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and read the fine print to learn for which year the mortality data have been tabulated. Copy and paste the relevant mortality data into Excel. Drag your mouse over all of the Cause of Death rows, (50 rows), right click, and select Copy, Open Excel and paste your selection into Excel. You should have a spreadsheet with 50 row and 19 columns (Columns A-S)..... continuation attached.