Crude Rate: The number of events or occurrences of disease in a given time period divided by the population at risk for that event or disease over the same time period.
County Rank: This number indicates the ranking of Webster County to the other counties in the state. For example, under Heart Disease Mortality Rates, Webster County has a ranking of 87, This means that only 12 other counties in Iowa have a higher heart disease mortality incidence rate than Webster County and 86 counties have a lower rate. In simple terms, a ranking of 1 indicates the best or healthiest rate in Iowa and a ranking of 99 indicates the worst rate of all counties in Iowa. Therefore, the higher the numerical ranking, the higher the rate of incidence in comparison to the rest of the counties in Iowa. A ranking of 49 would indicate that Webster County is at the median compared to all other Iowa counties.
Crude Rate |
Rank | |
Mothers who Drank during Pregnancy | 38.2* |
97 |
Pneumonia/Influenza | 82.1 |
93 |
Out-of-Wedlock Births | 334.4* |
93 |
Falls Mortality | 15.9 |
93 |
Mothers who Smoked during Pregnancy | 254.8* |
91 |
Incidence of Lung and Bronchial Cancer | 97.1 |
90 |
Homicide Mortality | 3.1 |
90 |
Incidence of Colorectal Cancer | 107.7 |
89 |
Lung and Bronchial Cancer Mortality | 77.1 |
87 |
Chronic Liver Disease | 9.2 |
87 |
Urinary Cancer Mortality | 7.5 |
84 |
Fetal Death Rates | 9.2* |
84 |
Marriage Dissolution’s | 4.4 |
84 |
Drowning Mortality | 2.2 |
83 |
Medicaid Deliveries | 431.9* |
83 |
Stomach Cancer Mortality | 7 |
82 |
Teen Births | 133* |
81 |
Birth Rates | 12.9* |
81 |
All Sites of Cancer Incidence | 643.2 |
81 |
Childhood Cancer Mortality | 5.1 |
79 |
Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Mortality | 14.2 |
78 |
Laryngeal Cancer Mortality | 2.2 |
78 |
Suicide Mortality | 12.9 |
71 |
Incidence of Female Breast Cancer | 165.9 |
69 |
Incidence of Cervical Cancer | 11.2 |
69 |
Heart Disease Mortality | 455.1 |
67 |
Ovarian Cancer Mortality | 14.9 |
65 |
Incidence of Prostate Cancer | 193.9 |
64 |
Firearm Mortality | 9.2 |
63 |
Pancreatic Cancer Mortality | 12.5 |
54 |
Female Breast Cancer Mortality | 41.6 |
53 |
Cervical Cancer Mortality | 2.7 |
47 |
Infant Mortality | 6.6* |
46 |
Motor Vehicle Accident Mortality | 20.3 |
42 |
Burn Mortality | 1.1 |
40 |
Stroke Mortality | 79.3 |
34 |
Incidence of Laryngeal Cancer | 4.5 |
33 |
Incidence of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma | 19.5 |
32 |
Prostate Cancer Mortality | 33.2 |
29 |
Low Birth Weight | 51.3* |
23 |
Colorectal Cancer Mortality | 27 |
22 |
Diabetes Mortality | 11.7 |
2 |
* Crude Rate per 1,000. All others are Crude Rate per 100,000
Source: Provision of Comprehensive Health Care to Rural Iowans in the 21st Century, University of Iowa Health of the Public Program & 1999 Iowa Health Fact Book.
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