Philippine health situation Flashcards
Useful in epidemiological investigations
Attack rate
More accurate measure of the risk of exposure
Attack rate
Cases given medical care at any point in time during course of the illness which directly cause death
Attended
Numerical order of a child in relation to all previous pregnancies
Birth order
First weight of the fetus or newborn obtained after birth
Birth weight
Measure of one characteristic of natural growth
Crude birth rate
Measure of one mortality from all causes which may result in decrease of population
Crude death rate
Rates are referred to the total living population
Crude or general rates
Permanent disappearance of all evidence of life
Death
Death prior to the complete expulsion of a product
Fetal death
Measures pregnancy wastage
Fetal death rate
Measures the frequency of occurrence of the phenomenon during a given period of time
Incidence rate
Death of an infant under one year of age
Infant mortality/death
Measures the risk of dying during 1st year of life
Infant mortality rate
Death of fetus with 28 or more completed weeks of gestation
Late fetal death