Talk:List of causes of death by rate

message: Does anyone know how many people just die of old age, or have these all been placed in other categories now?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Azoundria (talk • contribs) 20:10, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: May I ask how is that related to Wikipedia issues? NCurse  work 19:20, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old Age? 

message: I did change the no.1 cause of Death to HUNGER.
The reference cited supports it as the underline cause of the majority of the subsequent fatal diseases.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tjald (talk • contribs) 21:04, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: While that is true, the main table was compiled interily by just one source. Putting hunger on that table like that warps it and the percentagens, and is just a bad methodology. Therefore, I took out hunger from the table but left a note about it at the bottom and kept the links. I think it's more precise like that and keeps all the information. Diego Vieitez (talk) 21:17, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: There are a multitude of conditions that people can have that may contribute to, but are not the overall final cause of death. It is the final cause of death that these tables are meant to represent, not the secondary ones. Why is hunger special as a secondary cause? Why not mention all the combining or contributory factors, such as underlying mental disorders that can contribute to deaths such as road accidents, or that other diseases such as cancer may cause suicides or road accidents? What causes hunger? Deaths by hunger may be caused by mental disorders such as anorexia, or cancers of the throat or stomach, or as the result of violence. You cant go back and discount the statistics by saying some or all deaths may have been caused by something else other than the primary cause. You end up at a position where none of the statistics are meaningful because everything may cause everything else. If there is a proviso to the given statistics on primary cause it shouldn't mention hunger specifically. It should merely state that sometimes there are contributory factors to deaths that are not mentioned in the tables, because the article is about the primary cause of death, not all the potential or possible contributing factors to those deaths. Mdw0 (talk) 06:56, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Anorexia and mental disorders have minimal impact on deaths that occur from the result of poor nutrition and outright starvation.  The vast amount of world deaths are in third-world areas where food shortages cause almost all mortality. - Chance  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.94.122.219 (talk) 11:47, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  No.1 cause of Death 

message: It would be interesting if this broke down causes of death into rates per different parts of the world. Starvation might be a worldwide leading cause of death, but it is not in my home country (the United Kingdom) where heart disease, cancer and cerebrovascular accidents are the three leading causes of death. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 23:26, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Different country rates

message: Prescription Drugs!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.53.161Seek2015 (talk) 05:20, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  forgot #3 cause 

message: The WHO website links to more up to date data that could be used in this article.
Link to website.
Data from 2008.
--92.160.201.223 (talk) 20:08, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  More recent data 

message: By focusing on a single year, the data leaves out pandemics, very large wars, and natural disasters.
No supervolcano happened in 2002.  World War 2 didn't happen in 2002.  Though these are rare events, some of them kill a huge number of people, and so may be significant enough to affect the overall risk.
Do we have any data on this?  --Hirsutism (talk) 17:51, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  longer view? 

message: :I agree, as long as the group figures are shown in boldface or with a background color, because they are supposed to add up to 100%. Gap9551 (talk) 15:37, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subgroup column should be merged in to Group column, IMO

message: List of most common diseases now redirects to List of causes of death by rate, but I'm not sure if this redirect page is accurate, since the list excludes other common diseases that are less often fatal. Does this redirect page need to be changed? Jarble (talk) 03:35, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[List of most common diseases]]" 

message: According to the FDA and Institute of Medicine, adverse reactions to prescription drugs cause over 106,000 deaths annually in the U.S. alone, making adverse reaction to prescription drugs "the 4th leading cause of death—ahead of pulmonary disease, diabetes, AIDS, pneumonia, accidents, and automobile deaths."
Source: https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/DevelopmentResources/DrugInteractionsLabeling/ucm110632.htm#ADRs:%20Prevalence%20and%20Incidence
Shouldn't this be included on this Wikipedia page?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Untranslatable energy (talk • contribs) 06:08, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  The 4th leading cause of death in the US is adverse reactions to prescription drugs, according to the FDA 

message: if it is all possible someone could join me on the nomination of the article for deletion, I don't think it should be deleted, I think the nominating editors and voting editors aren't even interested in the article and are simply attempting to eleiminate it because they just don't like the subject. The reasons they give don't seem valid, It would be really great if someone could add their opinion from here. thanks Sederecarinae (talk) 19:19, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Greetings! Thanks for your efforts to improve the encyclopedia. You should know that trying to recruit other editors with a certain opinion to influence the outcome of a discussion is considered inappropriate behavior, as explained by Wikipedia:Canvassing. It looks like you created this article recently and you're the main contributor; try not to take the deletion of this article personally. I don't see any evidence that the other participants are reacting negatively to the subject matter; all of their complaints are about the scope of the article and selection and presentation of material, and they seem to be generally accurate. If this article were to be filled out with full coverage of all the areas listed, it would be far too long to be a single article, and it would have severe overlap issues with other articles, some of which are actually linked. Probably the material that's being added here should actually be added to other existing articles, not all of which have good coverage. But the other articles generally have scopes which are supported by consensus and which make it relatively easy for readers to find what they're looking for, though some are definitely lacking content. In Wikipedia's coverage on causes of death, it's unusual to see both high-level worldwide statistics and mention of individual incidents. In articles with a consistent level of detail, there wouldn't be enough room to mention both of those things in the same article. This is why we have List of unusual deaths separate from List of causes of death by rate. The article you have created overlaps both of those, among many others created to contain the very large amount of data on this subject, and overlap is often not helpful to readers. I'll try to identify on the AFD where the overlapping content for various sections might fit in better. -- Beland (talk) 20:05, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks Sederecarinae (talk) 20:22, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  ongoing debate on deletion of [[Human and artificial cause death in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries]] 

message: Somehow I'm having a hard time to find anything about "Natural Cause of Death".
From what I read here, it would be because in most cases we can find a cause such as Cancer or Natural Disaster or this or that. If that's the case, I think we should have a section explaining why there isn't a line in the graph about natural causes of death.
Alexis Wilke (talk) 23:02, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Natural Cause of Death 

message: Is there any particular reason the length of this article is dominated by information about one single country? Also, starting with Developed vs. developing economies / By age group it is apparently just randomly dumped chart info copied from elsewhere. ♆ CUSH ♆ 10:44, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  USA vs Rest of the World 

message: what are the units on that bar chart on the right of the page?
why does it say 17.x for heart while the article has 29.x%
different years data used?
different units ?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.77.202.21 (talk) 15:17, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  accuracy ?  some items of question 

message: There is a typo on the Graph for Annual number of deaths by cause
Digestive disease is digetive disease. WWDQNFQAE (talk) 09:49, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: authored the graph on Commons, so pinging them. No such user (talk) 09:55, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typo 

message: I have removed the following major update from the lede as the lede is supposed to summarise the article. However there may be material here that can be used to update the article
 In 2017 , the WHO recorded 56.97 million people died because of the following rate for example 7.87% of death was related to Injuries and 72.83% was related to Non-communicable disease(NCDs) and 19.31% was related to Communicable , Maternal, and nutritional diseases. In 2018 , world faced with 57.35 million death that 15 leading cause of death in this year remined the same as in 2017. The death rate increased in 2019, it was 57.94 million people, that 18.56 million death were due to Cardiovascular diseases and 10.08 million death were due to cancer and the other related to other diseases. In 2020, the world faced with 63.17 million death , that one of the cause of this increase was Coronavirus. Provisional estimates indicated that we faced with17.7% increase in death that the first cause of death was Heart disease ( around  20.6%) and the second cause was cancer (around17.8%) and the third cause was Covid-19 (around 10.4%). Unfortunately the rate of death was increased and it was 69.25 million people in 2021 that this rate increased because of the Corona virus but fortunately this rate decreased at 2022 and it became 67.10 million death because of the science progressed about this virus and we were able to overcome it.
However it needs rephrasing into Wikipedia style as we don't describe things as fortunate or unfortunate. ϢereSpielChequers 08:52, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Major update moved from lede

message: This chart shows alcohol and drugs as a “disorder” which drives me crazy. Addiction is a DISEASE that left untreated IS FATAL ! Addiction isn’t a “disorder” 65.60.188.79 (talk) 11:00, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alcohol/Drug Addiction 

message: There should be a separate page for List of causes of death in the United States. It would be linked from many US health and healthcare pages on Wikipedia. 
Figure 4 from this CDC article would be good in the Wikipedia article:
*https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db456.pdf 
And the FastStats list for the US:
*https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
They are in the public domain since they are from the CDC. --Timeshifter (talk) 21:46, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of causes of death in the United States. Need separate article