Excerpt from Proceedings of the 1985 Public Health Conference on Records and Statistics Respiratory cancer is the major factor in the con tinted increase in cancer mortality in this age group. If there had been no additional deaths from respiratory cancer, mortality from cancer would have actually shown an 8 percent decrease between 1960 and 1982. In fact, by 1982 the respiratory cancer death rate for this age group was approaching two fold the rate that it was in 1960 (figure In the last few years, from 1979 to 1982, the increase was far greater for women nearly 20 percent much larger than the increase among men of only about 3 percent. Among teenage rs and young adults, there is a differ ent pattern of mortality. Here deaths from violent causes have been a concern throughout the past 25 years. In 1982 as in 1960, accidents were the leading cause of death for persons aged 15-24. Over three-quarte rs of the deaths in 1982 were due to a violent cause homicide, suicide, and accidents. There has been some improvement in some specific causes of violent deaths in this age group, homicide, for example. Although it is still the leading cause of death for young black males 15-24, it has been declining somewhat since 1971. Deaths from suicide are a special tragedy among young people. There have been declines for both white and black females, and the rates for white males seem to have stabilized (figure But among the subgroup of teenagers 15-19 years, only the suicide rates for white males have shown no improvement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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