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 ...
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...
Pakistan: Stop prison executions of the mentally ill on death row The Asian Human Rights Commission is deeply concerned about the case of Imdad Ali, a mentally ill, death row inmate in Pakistan. He is to be hanged on 20th September 2016 on the orders of the Sessions Court, despite a medi...
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...
Interstate Variations in Proportion of Mothers With History of Neonatal Death in India View LargeDownload Error bars indicate 95% CI; NFHS-4, National Family Health Survey; NMR, neonatal mortality rate. Figure 2. Adjusted Odds Ratios (ORs) for Neonatal Mortality for Overall Sample and Subgroup ...
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 ...
Iran is bounded to the north byAzerbaijan,Armenia,Turkmenistan, and theCaspian Sea, to the east byPakistanandAfghanistan, to the south by thePersian Gulfand theGulf of Oman, and to the west byTurkeyandIraq. Iran also controls about a dozen islands in the Persian Gulf. About one-third of ...
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 ...
). However, in developing countries like Angola and Pakistan, the perinatal mortality rate varies from 48.7 to 45.5 per 1000 live births (The World Bank, n.d.). With this huge difference in perinatal mortality rates among different countries, the need for examining the perspectives of health...