Volume 24, Number 2—February 2018
Research
Trends in Infectious Disease Mortality, South Korea, 1983–2015
Young June Choe, Seung-Ah Choe, and Sung-Il Cho
Table 5
Changes in age-standardized mortality rates associated with respiratory tract infections, sepsis, and tuberculosis among adults >65 years of age, by education level and inequality index, South Korea, 2000–2015
| Disease by education level and inequality | Mortality rate |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | |
| Respiratory tract infection | ||||
| Education level | ||||
| Middle school or less | 98.6 | 90.8 | 60.2 | 87.9 |
| High school | 69.4 | 53.5 | 28.6 | 35.9 |
| College or higher | 67.8 | 55.9 | 31.1 | 35.3 |
| Inequality index | ||||
| Slope index of inequality | 46.2 | 52.4 | 43.7 | 78.9 |
| Relative index of inequality |
0.6 |
0.8 |
1.1 |
1.5 |
| Sepsis | ||||
| Education level | ||||
| Middle school or less | 33.9 | 21.7 | 14.2 | 17.3 |
| High school | 24.4 | 12.5 | 6.1 | 5.9 |
| College or higher | 17.0 | 10.2 | 5.2 | 5.6 |
| Inequality index | ||||
| Slope index of inequality | 25.4 | 17.3 | 13.5 | 17.6 |
| Relative index of inequality |
1.0 |
1.2 |
1.6 |
1.8 |
| Tuberculosis | ||||
| Education level | ||||
| Middle school or less | 60.0 | 44.3 | 15.1 | 13.9 |
| High school | 45.8 | 34.6 | 7.7 | 6.1 |
| College or higher | 30.1 | 21.4 | 5.1 | 5.9 |
| Inequality index | ||||
| Slope index of inequality | 42.0 | 30.7 | 16.8 | 15.2 |
| Relative index of inequality | 0.7 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 1.4 |
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