U.S. Death Rates are Rising

A current Health-Related Event or Issue

A new report shows that more Americans are dying. For the first time in many years the overall death rate has ticked up in 2015. The health officials are not clear to what what is causing the death rate, they have to analyze the data a little more thoroughly before they can tell in which group the death rates are rising. The death rates were observed for Alzheimer’s disease, chronic liver disease, and cirrhosis, chronic lower respiratory diseases, hypertension Parkinson’s disease, septicemia, homicide, firearm-related injury, suicide, and unintentional injury and drug overdose, part of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said in its report. These death rates are adjusted, meaning the age of the population is taken into account so that it doesn’t appear that deaths rates simply rose because one group of people happened to be older than another group. Not much can be done because a disease is something that runs in your genes, and the gun deaths have also went up, and also suicide has risen up. This doesn’t seem to affect me but it can affect my community.