Help with top 10-20 causes of death in US

[NeilNE]

I'm look for web sights that have a list of top 10-20 causes of death in the US. Like guns, doctor caused death, auto, etc.

 

[JRS]

Google "top ten causes of death in the U.S."

 

[Terry Altom]

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm

 

[Travelor]

Google "top ten causes of death in the U.S."

 

[Mozella]

Oops.......... the medical guys "accidentally" forgot to include medical errors in their chart. Imagine that!
Medical errors are the third leading cause of death related to medical situations, about a quarter of a million folks per year, or about half the current cancer rate of death. Of course, this data doesn't address car wrecks and non medical deaths.

 

[Terry Altom]

I think they slip those in several of the categories, like unintentional and Septicemia (infections)

Bad PR to simply say your doctor screwed up.

 

[yotehater]

I'd like to see a separate category of cell phone related fatalities. Every day another head on or driver distracted fatality. Or falling into a man hole or pedestrian killed or some small kid cooked in the back seat. Separate those from auto and accidents, falls into the root cause, cell/smart device/distracted fatalities.

 

[M-61]

I believe I read somewhere that cell phone related deaths in automobile accidents has surpassed DWI deaths.

 

[22BRGUY]

Also recently read in several places that the U.S. murder rate is at a 51 year low.

 

[NeilNE]

Well guys & gals, I had a discussion with a person and they were pretty ignorant, and I wanted to show them a list of what causes more deaths than

guns. I believe swimming pools, doctors, auto, etc. have higher deaths than guns. Do you know of a list like this??????????????////

 

[fredhorace77]

http://www.oregonlive.com/data/2015/10/gun_deaths_other_causes.html

 

[joshb]

OMG!!! What happens when texting while driving deaths surpasses gun related deaths? Are they gonna ban cell phones?? Why do I believe THAT information will get buried by the media.

 

[billlarson]

Oops.......... the medical guys "accidentally" forgot to include medical errors in their chart. Imagine that!
Medical errors are the third leading cause of death related to medical situations, about a quarter of a million folks per year, or about half the current cancer rate of death. Of course, this data doesn't address car wrecks and non medical deaths.

+2..... This is the truth........ Doctors cause more death in U.S. than any other thing..................

 

[JRS]

#1 - Heart disease - 614,000 deaths per year.

#3 - Medical errors - 251,000 deaths per year.

 

[22BRGUY]

I propose there are NO deaths "caused" by guns....they are inanimate objects incapable of doing anything by themselves.

 

[jonbearman]

I would like to see the non slanted deaths per thousand caused by damn alcohol. I would bet it is 20 times what we have skewed into gun deaths.

 

[jds holler]

One of the "gun death" statistics that never seems to get talked about, is this: what is the number of gun fatalities among folks who are thieves and murderers, who hang around with thieves and murderers?

If this segment of "gun fatalities" could be removed from the rest, I suspect that the gun deaths of innocent and law abiding citizens would be very low compared to other causes.

It could be argued that thieves and murderers killing each other is still a tragic loss of human life -- or --- perhaps that's another conversation. jd

 

[germanlongbow]

I work in health care. Have for almost 25 years. People are quick to blame healthcare/doctors for issues that have more to do with personal choices than healthcare mistakes. Fact is we eat, drink, smoke, and fail to take our health more of our own responsbiiity. Some fat lazy people smoke and drink themselves to heart failure, lung cancer and morbid obesity. They come in for a procedure and something bad happens. Blame the hospitals and staff. But don't take any responsibility for their poor life style choices. Now throw in a couple money hungry lawyers who care nothing about reality. Everyone suffers in the end. Common sense and morals no longer drive people to work hard or take pride in their jobs. Not trying to start any arguments. People just need to take some responsibility for themselves. We all know guns dont kill people and forks don't make people obese. It takes a person to make a choice, right or wrong for things to happen.

 

[linekin]

I wonder where the drug overdose #'s are? Its hit a lot closer to home lately & is a shame.
Keith

 

[walt willis]

I'm look for web sights that have a list of top 10-20 causes of death in the US. Like guns, doctor caused death, auto, etc.

#1 Over the past 20 years, gun sales have absolutely exploded, but homicides with firearms are down 39 percent during that time and “other crimes with firearms” are down 69 percent.

#2 A study published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy discovered that nations that have more guns tend to have less crime.

#3 The nine European nations with the lowest rate of gun ownership rate have a combined murder ratethat is three times greater than the nine European nation with the highest rate of gun ownership.

#4 Almost every mass shooting that has occurred in the United States since 1950 has taken place in a state with strict gun control laws…

#5 The United States is #1 in the world in gun ownership, and yet it is only 28th in the world in gun murders per 100,000 people.

#6 The violent crime rate in the United States actually fell from 757.7 per 100,000 in 1992 to 386.3 per 100,000 in 2011. During that same time period, the murder rate fell from 9.3 per 100,000 to 4.7 per 100,000.

#7 Approximately 200,000 women in the United States use guns to protect themselves against sexual crime every single year.