15-9.
Reduce deaths caused by suffocation.
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15-9. | |
Reduce deaths caused by suffocation. |
Target: 3.0 deaths per 100,000 population.
Baseline: 4.1 deaths per 100,000 population were caused by suffocation in 1998 (age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population).
Target setting method: Better than the best.
Data source: National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), CDC, NCHS.
|
Total Population, 1998 |
Suffocation Deaths |
|
Rate per 100,000 |
|
|
TOTAL |
4.1 |
|
Race and ethnicity |
|
|
American Indian or Alaska Native |
7.6 |
|
Asian or Pacific Islander |
3.5 |
|
Asian |
DNC |
|
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander |
DNC |
|
Black or African American |
4.2 |
|
White |
4.1 |
|
|
|
|
Hispanic or Latino |
3.1 |
|
Not Hispanic or Latino |
4.2 |
|
Black or African American |
4.4 |
|
White |
4.1 |
|
Gender |
|
|
Female |
2.4 |
|
Male |
6.0 |
|
Education level (aged 25 to 64 years) |
|
|
Less than high school |
6.5 |
|
High school graduate |
5.1 |
|
At least some college |
2.2 |
|
Select suffocation deaths |
|
|
Homicides |
0.2 |
|
Suicides |
2.1 |
|
Unintentional deaths |
1.7 |
DNA = Data have not been analyzed. DNC = Data are not
collected. DSU = Data are statistically unreliable.
Note: Age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population.