FIGURE 3—

Pneumonia and influenza death rates for American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) and Whites: Contract Health Service Delivery Areas, United States, 1999–2003 and 2004–2009.

Note. Rates are per 100 000 persons and are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population (11 age groups; Census P25-1130⁴⁵). Analyses are limited to persons of non-Hispanic origin. AI/AN race is reported from death certificates or through linkage with the IHS patient registration database. The following states and years of data are excluded because Hispanic origin was not collected on the death certificate: LA: 1990; NH: 1990–1992; OK: 1990–1996.

Source. AI/AN Mortality Database (AMD 1990–2009).