Which mortality rate divides by the estimated total mid-year population?
ACause-specific mortality rate
BAge-specific mortality rate
CSex-specific mortality rate
DMaternal mortality rate
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Cause-specific mortality rate
1. A cause-specific mortality rate narrows only the numerator, to deaths from one cause.
2. Its denominator stays the whole population at the midpoint of the period.
3. An age-specific rate narrows the denominator to that age group, and a sex-specific rate narrows it to one sex.
4. The maternal mortality rate uses live births in the denominator instead of a population count.
_Source: CDC Principles of Epidemiology in Public Health Practice (3rd ed., US federal, public domain), Lesson 3 "Measures of Risk", section Cause-specific mortality rate_
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