LESSON 7 part 2 Flashcards
The total living population
Crude or General Rates
The relationship for a specific population class or group
Specific Rate
A measure of one characteristics of the natural growth or ‘increase of population’
Crude Birth Rate
A measure of one ‘mortality’ from all causes which may result in a ‘decrease population’
Crude Death Rate
Measures the risk of dying during the ‘1st year of life’
Infant Mortality Rate
Measures the risk of dying from causes related to pregnancy
Maternal Mortality Rate
Measures ‘pregnancy wastage’
Fetal Death Rate
Measures’ frequency of occurence of the phenomenon’ during a given period of time
Incidence Rate
Measures the ‘proportion of the population’ which exhibits a particular disease
Prevalence Rate
A more ‘accurate measure of the risk of exposure’
Attack rate
Shows the numerical relationship between deaths from all causes
Proportional Mortality
‘Index of a killing power of a disease’ and is influenced by incomplete
Case of Fatality Ratio
