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Measures of Disease Question 28


Question

Consider the following heart disease mortality data from two hypothetical countries, including a developing and a developed country:


A. Use these data to calculate the overall crude death rates from heart disease in the hypothetical developed and developing countries B. Based on these data, do you think that it is better to compare to heart disease and death rates in the two countries using the overall accrued rate for the age-standardized rate for each country? Briefly justify your answer.


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