Tables with the leading causes of death occurring in 1999-2002 for residents of Cleveland, inner ring and outer ring municipalities and all of Cuyahoga County were generated as a joint project of the Cleveland Department of Public Health and the Cuyahoga County Board of Health.

Inner ring municipalities are those that share a border with Cleveland. These are:

Bratenahl, Brook Park, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Hts., Cleveland Hts., Cuyahoga Hts., East Cleveland, Euclid, Fairview Park, Garfield Hts., Lakewood, Linndale, Maple Hts., Newburgh Hts., Parma, Rocky River, Shaker Hts., South Euclid, Warrensville Hts.

The tables are arranged first by Cleveland neighborhoods (statistical planning areas), then by inner and outer ring municipalities of Cuyahoga County. Finally, there is a table that coalesces the data into Cleveland, Inner, Outer Rings and the entire county.

These figures are not age-adjusted, so that communities with older residents may appear to have a larger percentage of deaths due to chronic conditions. However, these statistics present the burden of disease leading to death in a population.

Original data were provided by the Ohio Department of Health and the Cuyahoga County Board of Health, with analysis done by the Cleveland Department of Public Health.

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