Data Collection and Analysis Unit
Department of Public Health
County of Los Angeles

Email: DCA@ph.lacounty.gov

313 North Figueroa Street
Room Lobby-1
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Monday -Friday 8:00 – 4:00 pm

(213) 288-7812 (births)
(213) 288-7816 (deaths)
Email: VRO@ph.lacounty.gov

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Los Angeles County is home to more people than any state other than California, Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan.

Approximately 140,000 babies are born in Los Angeles County every year.

Approximately 60,000 deaths occur in Los Angeles County every year.

Annual Mortality Reports

2011 Annual Mortality Report 2010 Annual Mortality Report 2009 Annual Mortality Report 2008 Annual Mortality Report 2008 Annual Mortality Supplement   You may also download our Mortality Presentation 2012 slides. Past Reports 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Supplement 2009               Provide Mortality Report Feedback

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Journal Publications

1. Redelings, M.D., Wise, M.E., and Sorvillo, F.  Using multiple cause-of-death data to investigate associations and causality between conditions listed on the death certificate. Am J Epidemiol. 2007;166(1)104-108.

2. Shafir, S.C., Wang, W., Sorvillo, F., Wise, M.E., Moore, M., Sorvillo, T., and Eberhard, M.L. Thermal death point of Baylisascaris procyonis eggs. Emerg Infect Dis 2007;13(1):172-173.

3. Sharip, A., Sorvillo, F., Redelings, M.D., Mascola, L., Wise, M.E., and Nguyen, D. Population-based analysis of meningococcal disease mortality in the United States, 1990–2002. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2006;25(3):191-194.

4. Redelings, M. D., Frye, D. M., and Sorvillo, F. High Incidence of HIV-Associated Mortality Among Black and Hispanic Infants and Women of Childbearing Age in the United States 1990-2001. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2005; 39(4):496-498.

5. Wise, M. E. and Sorvillo, F. Hepatitis A--related mortality in California, 1989-2000: analysis of multiple cause-coded death data. Am J Public Health 2005; 95(5):900-5.

6. Redelings, M. D., Sorvillo, F., and Simon, P. A population-based analysis of pneumococcal disease mortality in California, 1989-1998. Public Health Rep 2005; 120(2):157-64.

7. Wise, M. E., Sorvillo, F. J., Shafir, S. C., Ash, L. R., and Berlin, O. G. Severe and fatal central nervous system disease in humans caused by Baylisascaris procyonis, the common roundworm of raccoons: a review of current literature. Microbes Infect 2005; 7(2):317-23.

8. Redelings, M. D., Sorvillo, F., Simon, P., and Mascola, L. Declining early childhood mortality from invasive pneumococcal disease: the impact of vaccination. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2005; 159(2):195-6.

9. McCoy, L., Sorvillo, F., and Simon, P. Varicella-related mortality in California, 1988-2000. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2004; 23(6):498-503.

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DCA Unit Reports
OHAE Publications
Epidemiology Unit Reports
Health Assessment Unit Reports
Los Angeles County Public Health Department Reports