Name Calculation of Mortality Rates

It's been a while since my epidemiological course work. Any open source software, or at least a formula, to convert monthly mortality rates to daily? For example 0.20deaths/1,000/month to xxdeaths/10,000/day?

One of the simplest ways in applying a formula is to proceed step by step, considering one parameter at a time, while keeping the others constant: So in this case we start by converting the 0.20 deaths /1,000/ month to deaths per 10,000/month. This will be 0.2x10,000/1000=2death/10,000/month. Then proceed to convert the deaths per month to deaths per day: 2 deaths/10,000/30 = 0.07 deaths/10,000/day

Prof Anselimo Makokha

Answered:

9 years ago

The denominator in rates have two parts. These are persons and time. If you have a rate of (you example) 0.2 / 1,000 / month then persons are 1000 and time is one month. When you want to convert a rate to a different denominator it is simplest to take it in steps (as Anselimo says above). For example: (1) Convert from persons = 1000 to persons = 10,000:


    0.2 * (1000 / 10000) = 2

That is 2 / 10,000 / month. (2) Convert from one month (30.44 days) to one day:


    2 / 30.44 = 0.0657

That is 0.0657 / 10,000 / day. You could round this to 0.07 / 10,000 / day.

Mark Myatt

Technical Expert

Answered:

9 years ago

This more of a question about interpretation.

Using the example in the question with a CRD of 0.16/10000/day let's assume that a country's population at the end of the year is 5000000 how can one interpret the expected death rate ie

(0.16*5000000)/10000 = 80. Is it right to interpret this as 80 death per day from a population of 5m. By extension (80*365) death by year ?

I am new to epi and am not really sure about the interpretation. While searching for answer I stumble upon this thread.

Anonymous

Answered:

5 years ago

yes my problem is i dont see the figure of the population

benjamin Collins Tarlue

Answered:

3 years ago