Michigan is recording its lowest infant mortality in history, with a combination of health initiatives credited for pushing up survival rates.

Shifting patterns in ischemic stroke mortality and death locations across US populations highlight disparities and end-of-life care needs.

A new study in JAMA reveals the "statistical erasure" of Indigenous Americans, finding that the gap between AI/AN life ...

Death rates for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) are far higher than reported in official vital statistics, ...

Provisional data for 2024 released on Tuesday shows Indiana’s Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) is 6.3, down from 6.6 the year ...

Ty Roberts started her nonprofit after a difficult birth experience inspired her to become a doula. Now, she helps more women ...

Because the number of babies born in the U.S. varies from year to year, researchers instead calculate rates to better compare infant mortality over time. U.S. infant deaths fell to about 19,900 ...

while the single monthly mortality (SMM) rate measures prepayment risk on a month-to-month basis. How to Calculate Conditional Prepayment Rates (CPRs) The CPR can be used for a variety of loans.

Second, we used HUD’s point-in-time count as the population denominator to calculate mortality rates for each locality. Although this count is the only comprehensive national data source for ...

Age-period-cohort models were used to calculate these projections. This approach assumes that the probability that someone will get cancer, or die of cancer, will vary by their age, the year that they ...

Those figures allowed them to calculate monthly infant mortality rates. In a large population like that of the United States, the number of babies being born and dying each month tends to be ...