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Big killer
In public health, is the catalog of major diseases that affect to a human community. We can find :
- Cancer: 23 % of deaths
- Circulatory diseases[?]: 36 %.
- Diabetes : 1/3 of heart attack people suffer diabetes.
- Infectious diseases : AIDS and tuberculosis
- Mental illness : 30 % of people in the community suffers one. Prevalent are parkinson[?] and alzheimer[?]
- Traffic accidents[?]
Ten Leading Causes of Death in the United States in the year 2000:
- Heart disease: 710,760
- Cancer: 553,091
- Stroke: 167661
- Chronic lower respiratory disease[?]: 122,009
- Accidents: 97,900
- Diabetes: 69,301
- Pneumonia/Influenza: 65,313
- Alzheimer's disease: 49,558
- Nephritis[?], nephrotic syndrome[?], and nephrosis[?]: 37,251
- Septicemia: 31,224
Source: National Vital Statistics Report, Vol. 50, No. 16, courtesy of United States National Center for Health Statistics (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lcod.htm)
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