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mortality rate — mortality, mortality rate The death rate, usually standardized by age and sex, to facilitate comparisons between areas and social groups. It provides a measure of health risks, improvements in the quality of health care, and the comparative… … Dictionary of sociology
mortality — mortality, mortality rate The death rate, usually standardized by age and sex, to facilitate comparisons between areas and social groups. It provides a measure of health risks, improvements in the quality of health care, and the comparative… … Dictionary of sociology
Mortality displacement — denotes a (forward) temporal shift in the rate of mortality in a given population, usually attributable to environmental phenomena such as heat waves or cold spells. During heat waves, for instance, there is usually an excess mortality rate in… … Wikipedia
mortality rates — are critical for determining the abundance of fish populations and the effects of harvesting strategies on yield and spawning potential from a stock. Fish abundance is a balance between the factors that act to increase the stock (births) and… … Fisheries — dictionary
mortality rates — are critical for determining the abundance of fish populations and the effects of harvesting strategies on yield and spawning potential from a stock. Fish abundance is a balance between the factors that act to increase the stock (births) and… … Fisheries — dictionary
Human mortality from H5N1 — or the human fatality ratio from H5N1 or the case fatality rate of H5N1 refer to the ratio of the number of confirmed human deaths resulting from confirmed cases of transmission and infection of H5N1 to the number of those confirmed cases. For… … Wikipedia
Infant mortality — World infant mortality rates in 2008[1] Infant mortality is defined as the number of infant deaths (one year of age or younger) per 1000 live births. Traditionally, the most common cause worldwide was dehydration from diarrhea. However, the… … Wikipedia
Survival rate — In biostatistics, survival rate is a part of survival analysis, indicating the percentage of people in a study or treatment group who are alive for a given period of time after diagnosis. Survival rates are important for prognosis; for example,… … Wikipedia
List of countries by intentional homicide rate — See also: List of countries by intentional homicide rate to 1999 List of countries by intentional homicide rate per year per 100,000 inhabitants for the years from 2000 onwards. The reliability of underlying national murder rate data may vary.[1] … Wikipedia
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report — This article is about weekly publication of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For other uses of the term mobidity and mortality , see Morbidity and mortality. The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (ISSN 0149 2195) is a… … Wikipedia
