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Wisconsin State Health Plan 2010
Tracking Health Conditions

Query the Mortality Measures

Make selections below to define a table showing mortality measures for the health condition(s) of interest. The table can show counts or rates of death at the county level by age, sex, and race/ethnicity. The data are from death certificates for Wisconsin residents.

Most of the conditions listed here are measured by the underlying cause of death. Three conditions (hypertension, Alzheimer's disease, and diabetes) are measured by all mentions of the condition on the death certificate. (Note the mortality files do not include all-mention causes for deaths that occurred before 1993, so measures based on all-mention causes are not available for 1990-1992). One condition (farm injury) is measured by the reported place of an injury resulting in death. These exceptions to counting only the underlying cause mean that some deaths could be counted for more than one health condition; the categories are not mutually exclusive.

The mortality-based health condition measures are not a complete tally of all deaths. The WISH Mortality Module is one convenient source of local data on all Wisconsin resident deaths.

Please note that a major revision to the cause-of-death classification system was implemented for deaths that occurred in 1999 and subsequent years. Caution should be used in comparing numbers or rates for years before and after the revision. Please refer to the Trend Analysis Caution for details. Also refer to Technical Notes for data sources and query system terminology, and to Mortality Definitions for more information on the health conditions.

Step 1. Select a Measure

Mortality Rate (deaths per 100,000 population)

Step 2. Select One or More Causes of Death
(See the
ICD codes and definitions)
Note: To see statistics for specific causes of death, you must specify one or more causes in the drop-down list above AND choose "Causes of Death" as a ROW or COLUMN variable in steps 6 or 7 below.


Step 3. Choose One or More Geographic Areas

 

 

 Note: Vernon County was reassigned from the Western to the Southern Region effective February 2004. This change is reflected in the data presented for all years.

 



Step 4. Choose One or More Years

Please refer to the trends analysis caution before interpreting trend changes between 1998 and 1999, when changes in the classification system occurred. To select one or more years: Click on a year, or hold down the Control (Ctrl) key and click on multiple years.

or
      ranges (Example: 1999-2001). Do not overlap ranges from one box
      to the next.
     

 

Step 5. Choose Specific Characteristics (optional)

Choose to include only some age, sex, or race groups. To select more than one group (but not all), hold down the Control key and click on each selection.

  

Step 6. Choose a Row Variable

Step 7. Choose a Column Variable (optional)

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Last Revised:  June 25, 2008