Mortality Measures
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- Created on: 11-09-16 21:24
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- Mortality Measures
- Crude Death Rate (CDR)
- Total number of deaths per thousand of the population per year.
- No account of age of death as it relates to total population
- Simple and widely used
- Total number of deaths per thousand of the population per year.
- Age Specific Mortality Rate
- Number of deaths per thousand of population within specific age bands per yr.
- Often used by insurance companies to calculate risk of death to specific age group
- Number of deaths per thousand of population within specific age bands per yr.
- Infant Mortality Rate (IMR)
- Number of deaths per thousand in first yr of life. This is a variation of Age Specific Mortality Rate but only records deaths in first yr.Excludes stillbirths
- Good when comparing countries
- Number of deaths per thousand in first yr of life. This is a variation of Age Specific Mortality Rate but only records deaths in first yr.Excludes stillbirths
- Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR)
- Records number of maternal deaths per hundred thousand live births.
- World bank uses a refined version where average risks of women dying from childbirth have been calculated as ratio eg Sierre Leone 1:8
- Records number of maternal deaths per hundred thousand live births.
- Life Expectancy
- Number of years person is expected to live, assuming current mortality levels maintained. Depend on health and welfare conditions. LE increasing through C20th
- MEDCs 77yrsLEDCs-55-66yearsWomen higher LE than men- 7yrs in MEDCs and 4 in LEDCs
- Number of years person is expected to live, assuming current mortality levels maintained. Depend on health and welfare conditions. LE increasing through C20th
- Crude Death Rate (CDR)
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