Noun1.death rate- the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year deathrate,fatality rate,mortality rate,mortality infant deathrate,infant mortality,infant mortality rate- the death rate during the first year of life ...
Death comes in many forms, whether it be expected after a diagnosis of terminal illness or an unexpected accident or medical condition. Terminal illness When a terminal illness is diagnosed, a person, family, friends, and physicians are all able to prepare for the impending death. A terminally...
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Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical, Encyclopedia. Related to Age-specific death rate: Crude Mortality RateAGE. The time when the law allows persons to do acts which, for want of years, they were prohibited from doing before. See Coop. Justin. 446. 2. For males, before they...
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Ascertainment of cause for deaths that occur in the absence of medical attention is a significant problem in many countries, including Thailand, where more than 50% of such deaths are registered with ill-defined causes. Routine implementation of standardized, rigorous verbal autopsy methods is a pot...
The observed response rate for deaths outside hospitals was 86% (6,328/7,340), approximately what was expected from the pilot study. Table 2 compares the age and sex distribution of deaths from the sampling frame (registration data for deaths outside hospitals) with the age-sex distribution ...
(Pakistan), Lagos (Nigeria), Dhaka (Bangladesh) and Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea) have some of the highest murder rates in the world, but there are no reliable statistics andInterpolrefuses to make its statistics public. Caracas, Venezuela reputedly has a murder rate over 100 per 100,000...
1.at death's door,in serious danger of dying; gravely ill. 2.do to death,to do so often that boredom or staleness sets in. 3.put to death,to kill; execute. 4.to death,to an intolerable degree:sick to death of working. [before 900; Middle Englishdeeth,Old Englishdēath;c. Old ...
Over half of all sub-Saharan countries included in this analysis (24 of 43) had at least one unit where the mean combined DALY rate was greater than 0.5 per child per year (Fig. 2a), and among these, 19 had subnational variation large enough that some units had at least twice the ...