crude mortality rate
1crude death-rate — See mortality rate …
2Mortality 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… …
3mortality 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… …
4mortality rate — death rate The crude death rate, i. e. the number of deaths per 1000 of the average population in a given year. It can be subdivided into different rates for different age groups of the population and for different regions …
5mortality — 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… …
6Age-standardized mortality rate — Age standardized mortality rates are used to compare the mortality rates of places without being skewed by the difference in age distributions from place to place. Standardized rates are favored over Crude Rates because they take age groups into… …
7rate — 1. A record of the measurement of an event or process in terms of its relation to some fixed standard; measurement is expressed as the ratio of one quantity to another ( e.g., velocity, distance per unit …
8crude rate — the total number of events (e.g. cases of lung cancer) expressed as a percentage (or rate per 1000, etc.) of the whole population. When factors such as age structure or sex of populations may seriously affect their rates (as in mortality or… …
9crude rate — the total number of events (e.g. cases of lung cancer) expressed as a rate per 1000 population. When factors such as age structure or sex of populations can significantly affect the rates (as in mortality or morbidity rates) it is more meaningful …
10Total fertility rate — Not to be confused with birth rate. A world map showing countries by fertility rate, 2005 2010 …