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mortality rate — noun the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year • Syn: ↑deathrate, ↑death rate, ↑mortality, ↑fatality rate • Hypernyms: ↑rate • Hyponyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
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 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
neonatal mortality rate — noun the death rate during the first 28 days of life • Syn: ↑neonatal mortality • Hypernyms: ↑deathrate, ↑death rate, ↑mortality, ↑mortality rate, ↑fatality rate … Useful english dictionary
Neonatal mortality rate — The number of children dying under 28 days of age divided by the number of live births that year. The neonatal mortality rate in the United States, which was 8.4 per 1,000 live births in 1980, declined to 5.8 per 1,000 live births in 1990 … Medical dictionary
Rate, neonatal mortality — The number of children dying under 28 days of age divided by the number of live births that year. The neonatal mortality rate in the United States, which was 8.4 per 1,000 live births in 1980, declined to 5.8 per 1,000 live births in 1990 … Medical dictionary
neonatal mortality rate — see infant mortality rate … Medical dictionary
neonatal mortality rate — See mortality rate … Dictionary of sociology
neonatal mortality rate — see infant mortality rate … The new mediacal dictionary
infant mortality rate — (IMR) the number of deaths of infants under one year of age per 1000 live births in a given year. Included in the IMR are the neonatal mortality rate (calculated from deaths occurring in the first four weeks of life) and postneonatal mortality… … Medical dictionary
