Changes in Mortality
by Edwin Ulmer
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June 22, 2012
By how much have certain things like cancer increased in frequency? (Leads to a nice discussion of applied math in history and science.)
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What's nepropathy? If there are half as many deaths per 100,000 is our population doubling?
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Why do heart disease and cancer go up? Could it be that some people aren't succumbing to those other diseases anymore?
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Are less people dying now? Or if the total bar is shorter, what are people dying of today that is not in this chart, cuz people still die?
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What happened to pneumonia & TB? Why is cancer's share so much greater in 2010?
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is heart disease and cancer kills only recorded more and is larger because people complain about it more?
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Why has the number of deaths from cancer and heart disease increased in the past 110 years?
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what the hell did everyone else die of? There's like 98900 people left alive in 1900!
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Are there causes of death that were not recognized as cancer in 1900 that now are?
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How is it possible that deaths by accident decreased over the past 100 years?
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Why is cancer the only area that causes more deaths now than in 1900?
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Is refrigeration responsible for the reduced the rate of gastrointestinal infections?
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Why have heart disease and cancer increased over the last hundred years?
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