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VistaPHw Exercises

#1.  VistaPHw Exercise Topic:  Injury Hospitalization Rates in Whatcom County and Washington State, 1990-1999
Data Source:  Comprehensive Hospital Abstracting Reporting System (CHARS)
VistaPHw Learning Objectives:  Generate age-adjusted rates for multiple years and then test for trends.

#2.  VistaPHw Exercise Topic:  Average Age-adjusted Diabetes Death Rates by Gender in Two Health Districts, 1990-1999
Data Source:  Death Data System, Center for Health Statistics
VistaPHw Learning Objectives:  Generate gender-specific rates in two customized geographic areas and graph as rolling averages.

#3.  VistaPHw Exercise Topic:  Age-adjusted Death Rates for Female Breast Cancer by Race/Ethnicity, Washington State and Thurston County, 1990-1999
Data Source:  Death Data System, Center for Health Statistics
VistaPHw Learning Objectives:  Generate race-specific rates for multiple years

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#1.  VistaPHw Learning Objective:  Creating Streams

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