Mortality Rate
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 of time. Mortality rate is typically expressed in units of deaths per 1000 individuals per year; thus, a mortality rate of 9.5 (out of 1000) in a population of 1,000 would mean 9.5 deaths per year in that entire population, or 0.95% out of the total. It is distinct from morbidity rate, which refers to the number of individuals in poor health during a given time period (the prevalence rate) or the number of newly appearing cases of the disease per unit of time (incidence rate). The term "mortality" is also sometimes inappropriately used to refer to the number of deaths among a set of diagnosed hospital cases for a disease or injury, rather than for the general population of a country or ethnic group. This disease mortality statistic is more precisely referred to as "case fatality rate" (CFR).
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... Early recording of mortality rate in European cities proved highly useful in controlling the plague and other major epidemics ... Public health in industrialized countries was transformed when mortality rate as a function of age, sex and socioeconomic status emerged in the late 19th and 20th centuries ... This can lead to distortion in mortality statistics and a wrongful assessment of overall health ...
... In most cases, the prognosis of mucormycosis is poor and has varied mortality rates depending on its form and severity ... In the rhinocerebral form, the mortality rate is between 30% and 70%, whereas disseminated mucormycosis presents with the highest mortality rate in an otherwise healthy ... Patients with AIDS have a mortality rate of almost 100% ...
... Another study of blunt chest trauma revealed an incidence of only 0.3%, but a mortality rate of 67% (possibly due in part to associated injuries) ... The mortality rate for people who reach a hospital alive was estimated at 30% in 1966 more recent estimates place this number at 9% ... The sooner a TBI is diagnosed, the higher the mortality rate this is likely due to other accompanying injuries that prove fatal ...
... the most commonly seen form during the Black Death, with a mortality rate of thirty to seventy-five percent and symptoms including fever of 38–41 °C (101–105 °F ... form during the Black Death, with a mortality rate of ninety to ninety-five percent ... plague was the least common of the three forms, with a mortality rate close to one hundred percent ...
... Organisms that are r-selected have a high growth rate (r) and tend to produce a high number of offspring with minimal parental care their lifespans also tend to be shorter ... reproduce early and abundantly and allow for a low survival rate of offspring ... environment in which they can rely on a long lifespan and a low mortality rate that will allow them to reproduce multiple times with a high offspring survival rate ...
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