Community Medicine MCQ 013

A comparison of the crude death rates in two populations is misleading because the two populations vary considerably in their age distributions. Assuming that the age distributions are known for each of the two populations, what could be done to provide a more adequate comparison of death rates in the two populations?

A) Multiply the two crude death rates to arrive at a single death rate.
B) Divide the larger of the two crude death rates by the smaller to obtain a measure of relative risk.
C) Use a procedure called direct adjustment of rates.
D) Subtract the smaller crude death rate from the larger death rate to obtain the attributable risk.
E) Combine the two populations into one larger group and determine the overall crude death rate for both groups combined.

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