mortality index
1mortality — I noun condicio mortalis, death, destruction, evanescence, extinction, fatality, fugaciousness, fugacity, human race, humanity, humanness, impermanence, man, mankind, mortalitas, mortalness, subjection to death, temporary existence, transientness …
2mortality — /mawr tal i tee/, n., pl. mortalities. 1. the state or condition of being subject to death; mortal character, nature, or existence. 2. the relative frequency of deaths in a specific population; death rate. 3. mortal beings collectively; humanity …
3index — A quantitative social, economic, or political measure, often a weighted combination of a number of selected individual indicators for the domain of interest. One example is the Federal Bureau of Investigation s uniform crime index for the USA.… …
4compiler of tables of mortality — index actuary Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
5Human mortality from H5N1 — or the human fatality ratio from H5N1 or the case fatality rate of H5N1 refer to the ratio of the number of confirmed human deaths resulting from confirmed cases of transmission and infection of H5N1 to the number of those confirmed cases. For… …
6Child Development Index — World map indicating Child Development Index The Child Development Index (CDI) is an index combining performance measures specific to children education, health and nutrition to produce a score on a scale of 0 to 100. A zero score would be the… …
7Infant mortality — World infant mortality rates in 2008[1] Infant mortality is defined as the number of infant deaths (one year of age or younger) per 1000 live births. Traditionally, the most common cause worldwide was dehydration from diarrhea. However, the… …
8Physical quality-of-life index — The physical quality of life index (PQLI) is an attempt to measure the quality of life or well being of a country. The value is the average of three statistics: basic literacy rate, infant mortality, and life expectancy at age one, all equally… …
9Child mortality — Child mortality, also known as under 5 mortality, refers to the death of infants and children under the age of five. In 2010, 7.6 million children under five died [1], down from 8.1 million in 2009,[2] 8.8 million in 2008,[3] and 12.4 million in… …
10Pneumonia severity index — The pneumonia severity index [PSI] or PORT Score is a clinical prediction rule that medical practitioners can use to calculate the probability of morbidity and mortality among patients with community acquired pneumonia.Fine MJ, Auble TE, Yealy DM …
