Learning Outcomes

When you have successfully completed this assignment, you will be able to:

Apply health informatics concepts to the management of health information (3)

Calculate statistics for health care operations (3)

Examine behaviors that embrace cultural diversity (4)

Information

Evaluating the WA state health statistics helps in determining current trends in population growth and health. Complete this activity noting the general health of WA state.

Instructions

Open the Health of Washington State Report/MostRecentReport (Links to an external site.)

Under General Health Status, click on Mortality and Life Expectancy (2015 Update - PDF)

This summary is a few years old, but it is a good example of how WA state utilizes health statistics.

Answer these questions in the textbox (no file submission):

a. In 2014, how many WA state residents died?

b. For those born in 2014, what is the average life expectancy?

c. Which county has the highest death rate?

d. Which county has the lowest death rate?

e. What is the leading cause of mortality in WA State?

f. Of those older than age 14, which has the highest death rate, females or males?

g. Pertaining to race, which population had the highest age-adjusted death rate?

5. Scroll through the material, was there anything that surprised you about any of the data?

Did you learn anything new from this data source and/or information?