H_USMortality {lattice} | R Documentation

## Mortality Rates in US by Cause and Gender

### Description

These datasets record mortality rates across all ages in the USA by cause of death, sex, and rural/urban status, 2011–2013. The two datasets represent the national aggregate rates and the region-wise rates for each administrative region under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

### Usage

    USMortality
    USRegionalMortality

### Format

`USRegionalMortality` is a data frame with 400 observations on the following 6 variables.

`Region`

  A factor specifying HHS Region. See details.

`Status`

  A factor with levels `Rural` and `Urban`

`Sex`

  A factor with levels `Female` and `Male`

`Cause`

  Cause of death. A factor with levels `Alzheimers`, `Cancer`, `Cerebrovascular diseases`, `Diabetes`, `Flu and pneumonia`, `Heart disease`, `Lower respiratory`, `Nephritis`, `Suicide`, and `Unintentional injuries`

`Rate`

  Age-adjusted death rate per 100,000 population

`SE`

  Standard error for the rate

`USMortality` is a data frame with 40 observations, containing the same variables with the exception of `Region`.

### Details

The region-wise data give estimated rates separately for each of 10 HHS regions. The location of the regional offices and their coverage area, available from https://www.hhs.gov/about/agencies/iea/regional-offices/index.html, is given below.

HHS Region 01 - Boston:

  Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont

HHS Region 02 - New York:

  New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands

HHS Region 03 - Philadelphia:

  Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia

HHS Region 04 - Atlanta:

  Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee

HHS Region 05 - Chicago:

  Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin

HHS Region 06 - Dallas:

  Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas

HHS Region 07 - Kansas City:

  Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska

HHS Region 08 - Denver:

  Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming

HHS Region 09 - San Francisco:

  Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Marshall Islands, and Republic of Palau

HHS Region 10 - Seattle:

  Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington

### References

Rural Health Reform Policy Research Center. _Exploring Rural and Urban Mortality Differences_, August 2015 Bethesda, MD. https://ruralhealth.und.edu/projects/health-reform-policy-research-center/rural-urban-mortality

### Examples

    dotplot(reorder(Cause, Rate) ~ Rate | Status,
            data = USMortality, groups = Sex,
            par.settings = simpleTheme(pch = 16), auto.key = list(columns = 2),
            scales = list(x = list(log = TRUE, equispaced.log = FALSE)))
    dotplot(reorder(Cause, Rate):Sex ~ Rate | Status,
            data = USRegionalMortality, groups = Sex,
            scales = list(x = list(log = TRUE, equispaced.log = FALSE)))

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