2. Your first task as a junior epidemiologist for the World Health Organization

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2. Your first task as a junior epidemiologist for the World Health Organization who is to quantify mortality rates from the city of León, Nicaragua in 2015. The population of the greater León metro area was 206,264 in 2017 and in that year there were 998 deaths from all causes, of which, 60 deaths were caused by diabetes-related factors. A surveillance program completed late 2017 estimated 16,707 diabetes cases in León. What is: A) the crude, all-cause mortality rate, B) estimated diabetes prevalence, c) the case-fatality rate for diabetes, and D) proportionate mortality for diabetes in this city? (8 points)

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A] crude all cause mortality rate= total death/ total population *100

=998/206264*100=0.48%

B] Estimated diabetes prevalence= 16707/206264*100=8.09%

C]Case fatality rate=60/998*100=6.01%

D]Proportion mortality for diabetes in this city= 60/16707*100=0.35%

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