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Death Rates for the 2020 New Mexico Overall 10 Leading Causes of Death by Age Group and Cause of Death, New Mexico, 2016-2020

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Why Is This Important?

Death rates by leading causes of death show areas where health improvement and prevention programs could be targeted to reduce the greatest number of deaths.

The causes of death shown in the bar chart and data table are the 10 leading causes of death in New Mexico, overall, in 2020. The multi-colored grid shows the 10 leading causes of death in New Mexico for each age group.
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  • #This count or rate is statistically unstable (RSE >0.30), and may fluctuate widely across time periods due to random variation (chance). Please use caution in interpreting this value, or combine years, areas, or age groups to increase the population size.
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Definition

Death rates for the leading causes of death are the number of deaths per 100,000 New Mexico population from each cause, ranked according to the number of deaths.

Data Notes

The leading causes in the colored grid, below, were ranked by the crude death rates.

Data Source

New Mexico Death Data: Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics (BVRHS), Epidemiology and Response Division, New Mexico Department of Health.
(https://www.nmhealth.org/about/erd/bvrhs/vrp/)

How the Measure is Calculated

Numerator:Number of deaths from the specified cause
Denominator:Total population

Data Issues

Death certificate information is submitted electronically by funeral directors, who obtain demographic information from an informant, a close family member of the decedent. The NMDOH Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics (BVRHS) does annual trainings for funeral directors and local registrars and the death certificate information goes through extensive scrutiny for completeness and consistency. The cause of death is certified by the decedent's physician or the physician that attended the death. Accidental and suspicious deaths are certified by the Office of the Medical Investigator. When death certificates are received the cause of death literals are keyed into software locally by the BVRHS, then shipped to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) where they are machine coded into ICD-10 cause-of-death codes. NCHS returns the ICD-10 codes to BVRHS where the death records are updated.

Health Topic Pages Related to: Death Rates from Leading Causes of Death

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Medical literature can be queried at the PubMed website.

Indicator Data Last Updated On 11/09/2022, Published on 11/09/2022
Community Health Assessment Program, Epidemiology and Response Division, New Mexico Department of Health, 1190 S. Saint Francis Drive, P.O. Box 26110, Santa Fe, NM, 87502. Contact Rena Manning at rena.manning@doh.nm.gov