An Epidemiologist Is Conducting a Study in Which She Is

question 45

Multiple Choice

An epidemiologist is conducting a study in which she is only interested in finding out how many people die each year for a given population. The measure she will use for this study is the:

• A) age-standardized mortality rate.
• B) crude death rate.
• C) age-specific mortality rate.
• D) gross death rate.

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