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• morbidity statistics — Morbidity (illness) statistics are widely used by epidemiologists in the analysis of ill health within human populations. There are two major types of morbidity rate: the prevalence rate and the incidence rate. The prevalence rate gives an… …   Dictionary of sociology

• 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

• VITAL STATISTICS — Introduction GENERAL EXPLANATION Population changes reflect the natural facts of life: births and deaths. Births, in turn, have long been largely governed by the mechanisms of family formation. Vital statistics are compilations of data on… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Censoring (statistics) — In statistics and engineering, censoring occurs when the value of an observation is only partially known. For example, suppose a study is conducted to measure the impact of a drug on mortality. In such a study, it may be known that an individual… …   Wikipedia

• health and illness, sociology of — A field of sociology concerned with the social dimensions of health and illness, it covers three main areas: namely, the conceptualization of health and illness; the study of their measurement and social distribution; and the explanation of… …   Dictionary of sociology

• 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

• ICD — The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (most commonly known by the abbreviation ICD) provides codes to classify diseases and a wide variety of signs, symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social… …   Wikipedia

• Preterm birth — Classification and external resources Intubated preterm baby in an incubator ICD 10 O …   Wikipedia

• Mortality rate — Crude death rate by country Mortality rate is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit time. Mortality rate is typically expressed in units of… …   Wikipedia

• 2009 flu pandemic — Pandemic H1N1/09 Influenza Classification and external resources Electron microscope image of the reassorted H1N1 influenza virus. The viruses are 100 nanometres in diameter.[ …   Wikipedia