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Use these data to compute the rates specified in Exercise 14.3.1. Compare the results with those
obtained in Exercises 14.3.1 and 14.3.3 where appropriate and comment on the comparison.
13. There was a total of 110,984 live births in Georgia in 1994. The estimated total population as of
July 1, 1994, was 6,965,539. See Review Exercise 12 for the number of women of childbearing
age. From these data compute the crude birth rate and the general fertility rate. Compare the results
with those of Exercises 14.3.2 and 14.3.4 and comment on the comparison.
14. Use the following facts to compute and label appropriate measures of morbidity.
(a) In 2000, in the United States, there were 1560 cases of Malaria. The estimated population of
the United States as of July 1, 2000, was 281,422,000. [SOURCE: U.S. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, Summary of Notifiable Diseases, United States, 2000. Morbidity and
Mortality Weekly Report, Vol. 49, No. 53, June 14, 2002, and Statistical Abstract of the United
States: 2002 (118th edition), U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC, 2002, Table Nos. 18 and
174 (A-20).]
(b) In 2000, in the United States, there were 17,730 reported cases of Lyme disease. The estimated
population of the United States as of July 1, 2000, was 281,422,000. [SOURCE: U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, Summary of Notifiable Diseases, United
States, 2000. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Vol. 49, No. 53, June 14, 2002, and Statistical
Abstract of the United States: 2002 (118th edition), U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington,
DC, 2002, Table Nos. 18 and 174 (A-20).]
(c) In 1999, in Ohio, there were 436,000 estimated current users of marijuana. The estimated population
of Ohio as of July 1, 2000, was 11,335,000. [SOURCE: U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration, National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, 1999, and Statistical
Abstract of the United States: 2002 (118th edition), U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC,
2002, Table Nos. 18 and 183 (A-21).]
REFERENCES
Methodology References
1. MARK J. KITTLESON, Vital Statistics for the Public Health Educator, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale,
1996.
2. DAVID P. SMITH, Formal Demography, Plenum Press, New York, 1992.
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Applications References
Georgia Vital and Morbidity Statistics 2000, Georgia Division of Public Health, Atlanta, http://www.ph.dhr.state
.ga.us/programs/ohip/birthdeath.shtml.
Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000, U.S. Census Bureau DP-1, http://www.census.gov/
Press-Release/www/2001/tables/dp_us_2000.PDF.
2000 Mortality Vital Statistics Reports, Georgia Office of Health Information and Policy, http://www.ph.dhr
.state.ga.us/pdfs/ohip/vsr/mortality.00.pdf, p. 25.
1999 Mortality Vital Statistics Reports, Georgia Office of Health Information and Policy, http://www.ph.dhr
.state.ga.us/programs/ohip/pdfs/mortality1999rev.pdf, p. 14.
Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000, U.S. Census Bureau, DP-1 for North Carolina, http://www
.census.gov/census2000/states/nc.html.
Selected Vital Statistics for 2000 and 1996–2000, North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics, http://www
.schs.state.nc.us/SCHS/vitalstats/volume1/2000/north_carolina.html.