What are the limitations of age-standardized mortality rate?

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The age-standardized mortality rate is often used to infer that some populations are healthier than others. What are the major limitations of this method? I am aware that it ignores year-of-birth age cohort effects and the possibility that health behaviours in certain social groups may render then more sensitive to death under certain environmental conditions. Any thoughts and recommended publications please.

Emmanuel Vijayanand Murray

The same problems that any Standardising or Averaging method has.

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