Vital Statistics
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Used for general articles concerning statistics of births, deaths, marriages, etc. |
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GEN only: prefer specifics: no qualif; specify geog |
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Vital Statistics Registration |
Vital Statistics Categories.
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Life Expectancy - A figure representing the number of years, based on known statistics, to which any person of a given age may reasonably expect to live. |
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Life Tables - Summarizing techniques used to describe the pattern of mortality and survival in populations. These methods can be applied to the study not only of death, but also of any defined endpoint such as the onset of disease or the occurrence of disease complications. |
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Morbidity - The proportion of patients with a particular disease during a given year per given unit of population. |
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Mortality - All deaths reported in a given population. |
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Pregnancy Rate - The ratio of the number of conceptions (CONCEPTION) including LIVE BIRTH; STILLBIRTH; and fetal losses, to the mean number of females of reproductive age in a population during a set time period. |
Vital Statistics Definitions and Terms
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