A new website from Carnegie Mellon scientists and economists allows health regulatory officials to track death risk rankings online. The new website calculates risk of death according to locale, ethnicity (US only), age, and gender from top 66 causes of death. Death risk rankings is an evolving tool that later will add statistics about traffic safety, mortality risk, vehicle technology, and hospital admissions.”
Death risk rankings provides comparison of death rates in Europe and the US, how death causes change with age, differences in risk of dying between men and women, and differences in death risk between US blacks and whites.
A very unique feature of death risk rankings is that the interactive website calculates risk of dying in MicroMorts, which is a one in a million chance of dying.
Additional features of death risk rankings include estimates of how many people in a specific group die from one of the 66 causes includes in the analysis.
There are no statistics to provide causes of death, just trends related to deaths.
Death risk rankings is a collaborative effort between the Center for the Study and Improvement of Regulation at Carnegie Mellon University, which is part of the Department of Engineering & Public Policy, Death risk rankings, through CSIR researches the use of risk information and science to provide support and evaluation of regulatory decision making that can help determine public health risks, and engage policy makers in lively debate with health care consumers
Friday, August 28, 2009
Death risk rankings tracks causes of death
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