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 | | The overall cancer mortality rate among whites declined 1.7 percent from 1991 to 1995, in contrast to an increase of 5.6 percent from 1971 to 1990. | | | Mortality from cancer of the cervix uteri declined 9.7 percent overall: 9.1 percent in women under 65, and 7.5 percent in women 65 and older. | | | Mortality from colorectal cancer declined 7 percent in men overall: 5.2 percent in men under age 65, and 7.6 percent in men 65 and older. |
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| | HDE 19: Lecture 2 |
| | The cohort life table is based on the mortality experience of the same group of individuals from birth through the age when the last individuals dies. | | | Because each of the functions can be independently derived from the original cohort data and all but expectation of life can be used to derive the other functions, it is often inferred that no single function has precedent. | | | This orientation toward events rather than non-events is fundamental to the analysis of risk and hazard rates. |
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| | 2002.03.18.02: 03(Fact Sheet) Preventing Infant Mortality |
| | As part of its broader efforts to reduce infant mortality, HHS agencies support a wide range of outreach and education efforts aimed at reducing behavior that increases the risks of infant mortality. | | | The initiative includes 22 measurable health objectives specific to risk factors for infant mortality and more than 100 related objectives on issues such as cigarette smoking. | | | HHS also supports public health campaigns to promote healthy habits among parents expecting a child or caring for an infant to prevent child malnutrition, as well as medical research to better understand and prevent birth defects, premature birth and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and to promote healthier growth and development. |
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| | Child Health USA 2003 |
| | Approximately 24 percent of all infants weighing less than 1500 grams die by age one, compared to 2 percent of infants born at 1,500-2,499 grams and 0.3 percent of infants born at 2,500 grams or more. | | | Throughout the 1970’s and early 1980’s, the percentage of mothers who began breastfeeding in the hospital increased steadily to 61.9 percent, but then gradually declined to 51.5 percent by 1990. | | | U.S. Mortality Rates Among Infants, by Race/Ethnicity of Mother: 1980-2001* |
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| | Cleburne News - Alabama's infant mortality rate is 2000 is lowest ever |
| | Another encouraging change was the decline in smoking by mothers from 12.8 percent in 1999 to 12.5 percent in 2000. | | | State Health Officer Dr. Donald Williamson said, "The serious problem of infant mortality is extremely complex and will require major social changes to reach the governor's goal to reduce infant mortality by 25 percent by the end of the decade." | | | Women intending to have children should be encouraged to: |
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| | The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Health Care? Ask Cuba |
| | Babies are less likely to survive in America, with a health care system that we think is the best in the world, than in impoverished and autocratic Cuba. | | | Or to put it another way, our policy failures in Iraq may be killing Americans at a rate of about 800 a year, but our health care failures at home are resulting in incomparably more deaths - of infants. | | | Sweden, Japan and Iceland all have a rate that is less than half of ours. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/12/opinion/12kris.html?ex=1263272400&en=c7ea472ff9651976&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland
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| | MCH Library Infant Mortality |
| | This paper explores the issue of whether consumer choice of health professionals explains any of the differences in birth outcomes between children born to poor parents in the United States and those born to non-poor parents, and, if it does, why poor women choose different health professionals than their non-poor counterparts. | | | Resources include a series of fact sheets for expectant and new parents about reducing the risk of infant death; education and training materials for health and human service professionals; and a training manual and fact sheets for child care providers. | | | The initiative addresses 467 objectives in 28 focus areas that include 22 measurable health objectives specific to risk factors for infant mortality and more than 100 related objectives on issues such as cigarette smoking. |
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| | Mortality Rate. All Mortals Are Subject to Death. |
| | But the mortality rating and tendencies and fancies and pleasures prenataled within you must be purged from you or out of you to overcome even the infirmities of your ancestors and hereditation, to give you the Victory over sickness, afflictions and diseases that were handed down traditionally. | | | But of course, there is such a thing as a sanitary condition. | | | One writer said, "And death and the other place' followed." It is something to consider. |
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| | Summary and Findings |
| | The fact that the infant morality rate has dropped steadily suggests that there may be some lessons that could be applied to other areas of child well-being. | | | 84 However, the problem of infant mortality varies among individual cities, and recent evidence indicates neighborhood conditions can have a big impact on infant mortality rates. | | | Reduction in infant mortality in the United States is clearly a success story. |
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| | U.S. Cancer Mortality Rate Inches Down - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today |
| | Women were slower in starting to halt smoking, as reflected by a lower rate of decline in overall cancer mortality as compared to men. | | | While overall incidence rates remained stable among men, overall cancer incidence among women increased by 0.3% annually. | | | Advise patients that the single best way to reduce their personal risk of developing cancer is to stop smoking. |
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| | Abortion Surveillance---United States, 1998 |
| | This increase in very early procedures may be related to increased availability of early abortion services since 1992 as well as to an increase in medical (nonsurgical) and surgical procedures that can be performed early in gestation (36,37). | | | Fifth, ongoing surveillance provides data for assessing changes in clinical practice patterns related to abortion (e.g., longitudinal changes in the types of procedures and trends in gestational age at the time of abortion). | | | Hyattsville, MD: US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Services, CDC, National Center for Health Statistics, 2000. |
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| | The Agonist: SARS' Mythical Mortality Rate |
| | On the mortality issue, China has been more honest than the other affected countries. | | | On April 21, Chinese Executive Vice Minister of Health, Gao Qiang, said, "Guangdong has developed some effective methods which can cure 80 percent of the patients." [ 20% cannot be cured — docbear] | | | The reason the “official” death rate appears to be is rising is that such rates are based upon a flawed assumption. |
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| | Health Section Infant Mortality Rate |
| | Progress in reducing infant deaths may be limited, however, because it will undoubtedly be difficult to change current social norms associated with delayed childbirth. | | | The factors contributing to infant deaths are complex. | | | The complex ethical, social, medical, and public health factors contributing to infant mortality represent some of the most challenging issues for our county to address. |
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| | Infant Mortality Rate Rises, As Does Life Expectancy - Ambrosia Software, Inc. web board |
| | Advances in neo-natal care mean such babies may have better odds of surviving if they are outside the womb. | | | Women should have babies as late as possible. | | | Despite the infant mortality increase, U.S. life expectancy continues to rise because of steady decreases in deaths from heart disease, stroke and cancer. |
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| | Infant mortality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The World Health Organization defines a live birth as any born human being who demonstrates independent signs of life, including breathing, muscle movement, or heartbeat. | | | The leading causes of infant mortality are dehydration and disease. | | | Comparing statistics for IMR across countries can be a useful indicator of their level of health and development, but the method for calculating IMR often varies widely between countries based on the way they define a live birth. |
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| | People's Weekly World - Cuba’s infant mortality rate lower than U.S. |
| | Even if this is accepted (which it should not be) as an excuse for such a negative development, it raises more questions than it answers, such as: | | | And how does this breakdown among different racial, ethnic and economic subsections of the U.S. population? | | | The Center for Diseases Control attributes the worsening of the infant mortality rate in the U.S. to the tendency of more women to have babies when they are already in their 30s and 40s, said to be a greater risk for the neonates. |
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| | ABC News: U.S. Babies Die at Higher Rate |
| | Part of the reason U.S. infant mortality is rising in comparison to other countries is because while the U.S. rate has remained fairly stable, many other countries have greatly improved their health care systems. | | | At the same time, other countries are improving their infant mortality rates to the point that they have surpassed the United States. | | | While the health of infants in many countries is improving, babies born in the United States now face an increased risk of dying in the first year of life. |
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| | "Texas Department of State Health Services, Vital Statistics, Texas Infant Mortality Rates" |
| | Since the infant mortality rate is a key measure of community health, it is important to be able to easily compare infant mortality rates for different time periods and geographic areas. | | | High infant mortality rates may indicate poor maternal health, inadequate prenatal care, infant malnutrition and or limited access to adequate health care." (2) | | | is a most important index in Public Health work." (1) More recently, the Texas Department of State Health Services reports that "The infant mortality rate is a measure of the overall health of a community. |
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| | INFANT MORTALITY RATE DROPS TO ALL-TIME LOW |
| | Studies have found that infants born to women who participate in the two programs have lower rates of premature birth, low birth weight and infant mortality, and health care expenditures during the first year of life are more than 40 percent less. | | | "Infant mortality is an important measure of the state's health and we are making steady progress," Dr. Whitaker said. | | | The primary strategy is to identify women early in pregnancy, assist them with finding health care and other services, help them follow a healthy diet and encourage them to avoid health risks, such as smoking. |
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| | A study of mortality and natality, for an area naturally limited with respect to urbanization, should offer many features of interest to those engaged in matters of health and sanitation. | | | Mortality rates for the other specific communicable diseases were too low to give significant rates for even the total area and, as a matter of fact, the rates given in the table for the six diseases are based on numbers too low for interpretation except for the area as a whole. | | | Mortality rates of chronic disease among the towns vary widely, but a considerable part of the variation here is directly due to differences in the age distributions of the population. |
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| | Pregnancy & Childbirth U.S. Infant Mortality Rate Rises for First Time in 40 Years, CDC Report Says - Kaisernetwork.org |
| | Also, changes in the way hospitals report births, infant deaths and fetal deaths may have affected the infant mortality rate, according to the study (CDC release, 1/24). | | | Technological advancements in neonatal care also could have contributed to the increase in the infant mortality rate, according to the researchers, the | | | According to the report -- titled "Explaining the 2001-2002 Infant Mortality Increase: Data from the Linked Birth/Infant Death Data Set" and conducted by CDC's National Center for Health Statistics -- there were 27,970 infant deaths in 2002, or about seven deaths per 1,000 live births. |
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| | Abortion Increases Women's Mortality Rates |
| | "During the first four years, higher rates of death from suicide and heightened risk taking behavior were the most pronounced area of difference," he said. | | | "Abortion is clearly associated with a worsening of mental health and higher mortality rates. | | | Asked if these findings will lead to general recognition that mortality rates associated with abortion are higher than those for childbirth, Reardon expressed a fear that the new findings will be ignored by family planning counselors. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Infant mortality rate increases for the first time in four decades |
| | Most of the recent rise in infant deaths was attributed to neonates — babies less than 28 days old — particularly infants who died within the first week of life. | | | He calls infant mortality an important measure of public health, reflecting such factors as prenatal care, parental health, family socioeconomic status and health coverage. | | | But that good news was tempered by a troubling increase in infant mortality, which is considered an important bellwether of a nation's overall health. |
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| | Cancer mortality rate falls nearly 20 percent - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper |
| | Among women, who get fewer cancers as a whole, the improvement was better: a 19 percent decline, from 145 per 100,000 people from 1975 to 1979, to 117 per 100,000 from 1995 to 2000. | | | Charlene Cuaresma, of the cancer center, is among those working to identify cultural barriers to cancer prevention and treatment. | | | Hawai'i's death rate from cancer has fallen nearly 20 percent in the past two decades, but certain cancers are on the rise among some ethnic groups, a new report says. |
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| | World Health |
| | Meanwhile, life expectancy in less developed countries has gradually climbed, rising to about 64 years in 1995. | | | As life expectancy improves and the role of infectious, parasitic, and respiratory diseases diminishes, more people will survive to older ages and chronic degenerative diseases such as stroke, cancer, and heart disease will become more common causes of death. | | | Greater declines in the early 20th century were attributable to improvements in medical technology, which led to the control of such infectious diseases as tuberculosis, smallpox, and cholera. |
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| | NQMC NGC Summary |
| | Simultaneously, concerns about the quality of health care services have reached a crescendo with the Institute of Medicine's series of reports describing the problem of medical errors and the need for a complete restructuring of the health care system to improve the quality of care. | | | Providers with high rates have better outcomes, although this may be an artifact of patient selection. | | | Better processes of care may reduce mortality for craniotomy, which represents better quality care. |
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| | The Infant Mortality Rate: An Index of a Nation’s Health by F. Edward Yazbak |
| | It is important that I state that professionally, my primary concern is and has always been the health and welfare of infants and children. | | | This was the first rise in the infant mortality rate since 1958, and it may be a harbinger of worsening health conditions for America’s babies. | | | But the increase in IMR is not only due to the increase in the number of premature and low birth weight infants and we must find out what else is causing such increase in a country spending more on health care than any other. |
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| | ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Little progress on child mortality |
| | According to the study, Iraq's average annual rate of progress (-7,6 percent) between 1990 and 2002 shows the country is not likely achieve that goal. | | | While some indications showed improvement in child health between 1999 and 2002, the children's agency believed that child mortality was not getting any better since the conflict started in 2003 and that the death rate among children was rising. | | | Following recent attacks against health workers and hospitals, many families were avoiding going to health care centres. |
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| | ABC News: DC Infant Mortality Rate Lowest Ever |
| | Health Director Dr. Gregg A. Pane said the city needs to look at several issues which could be responsible. | | | He cited as examples mothers who are substance abusers, have conditions like obesity or do not get sufficient health care. | | | "Some of the contributing factors to the rising rate in some areas may be attributed to births to very high risk women," Pane said. |
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| | Wisconsin's Black Infant Mortality Rate Among Nation's Poorest |
| | Moreover, due to the rapidly changing nature of the law and our reliance on information provided by outside sources, we make no warranty or guarantee concerning the accuracy or reliability of the content at this site or at other sites to which we link. | | | Infant mortality is one of the key health measures investigated in a study published in the latest issue of the Wisconsin Medical Journal. | | | Another key measure of societal health the researchers investigated was low birth weight (LBW) rate. |
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| | D.C. Infant Deaths Up Slightly (washingtonpost.com) |
| | Total infant deaths increased from 81 in 2001 to 86 in 2002. | | | Scientists consider infant mortality an important gauge of a community's overall health and well-being because a variety of social forces -- including poverty, education, pollution, housing, crime, access to health care and the strength of personal support systems for mothers -- contribute to the rate. | | | The Department of Health said the infant mortality rate had been on a downward trend since it peaked at 23.2 in 1988, a time of rampant drug use and violence in impoverished neighborhoods. |
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| | World's Mortality Rate |
| | Let's take the same population and make a change. | | | Instead of one baby being born this year, there were 32 babies born. | | | This would mean that the mortality rate is 1 out of every 80 people. |
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| | Infant Mortality - Theodore Fuller |
| | Eyeballing the map, can you generalize what regions of the country or what states seem to have higher rates of infant mortality? | | | For example, a rate of 7 means that 7 infants died for every 1000 babies born. | | | The Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) refers to deaths among number of infants less than one year old who died in a year, compared to the number of births in that year. |
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| | Closing the Health GAP 2005 |
| | This publication summarizes the work being done through Indian Health Services (IHS) to educate, research and eventually alleviate the high rate of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) among the American Indian/Alaska Native community. | | | Although the infant mortality rate for Hispanic infants is less than the rate for non-Hispanic White infants, within the Puerto Rican subgroup, the infant mortality rate was 41% higher than non-Hispanic Whites. | | | Throughout this Web site, we include statistics like these to indicate some of the reasons why Americans should be concerned with the health gap. |
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| | Mortality rate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The early mortality rate, the total number of deaths in the early stages of an ongoing treatment, or in the period immediatly following an acute treatment. | | | The late mortality rate, the total number of deaths in the late stages of an ongoing treatment, or a significant length of time after an acute treatment. | | | In regard to the success or failure medical treatment or procedures, one would also distinguish: |
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| | Rate, infant mortality definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms |
| | The infant mortality rate is an important measure of the well-being of infants, children, and pregnant women because it is associated with a variety of factors, such as maternal health, quality and access to medical care, socioeconomic conditions, and public health practices. | | | Among Asians/Pacific Islanders, infant mortality rates ranged from 3.2 for infants of Chinese origin to 5.8 for Filipinos. | | | About one-third of infant deaths occur after the first month and are influenced greatly by social or environmental factors, such as exposure to cigarette smoke or problems with access to health care. |
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| | The First Measured Century: Timeline: Data - Mortality |
| | Life expectancy is the average number of years that a person would live if he or she experienced the age-specific death rates that occurred at a particular point in time. | | | Without a germ theory of disease, people did not take precautions to prevent the spread of infections. | | | The infant mortality rate is calculated by dividing the number of infants who die within one year of birth by the number of infants who are born. |
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| | ARKANSAS 1995 - 1999 COUNTY TRENDS IN MCH - Infant Mortality Rate |
| | Not only is the infant mortality rate a measure of deaths of infants, it is also an excellent gauge for the overall health of a community, as it is associated with a wide range of social and economic factors. | | | It must be cautioned that even when dealing with data for the entire state, infant mortality rates are subject to considerable year-to-year variation and what appear to be major changes may not be statistically significant. | | | This measure is perhaps the most important and widely used indicator of mortality among infants. |
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| | Construct a frequency histogram for the infant mortality rates based on your grouping in Exercise 1. | | | As noted in your text, infant mortality is concerned with infant deaths during the first year of life. | | | The infant mortality rate is usually defined to be the number of such deaths per 1000 live births during a given calendar year. |
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| | Infant Mortality Rate |
| | The infant mortality rate is sometimes considered to be highly correlated with economic well being, as those babies born to more affluent mothers are more likely to see their first birthday. | | | It is often used to measure the level of development of various countries, as it is often argued that one of the benefits of more developed economies is that increase in the national level of health and the consequential decline in the prevalence of various health problems including infant mortality. | | | Infant mortality is one of the most commonly used variables in sociology research. |
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| | mortality rate - definition of mortality rate by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | infant deathrate, infant mortality, infant mortality rate - the death rate during the first year of life | | | mortality rate - the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year |
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| | Rate, mortality definition - Cancer information on MedicineNet.com |
| | A condition such as tuberculosis can cause morbidity and mortality (disease and death). | | | Rate, mortality definition - Cancer information on MedicineNet.com | | | The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) is an important weekly publication by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (the CDC). |
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| | The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Infant mortality rate |
| | This rate is often used an indicator of the level of health in a country. | | | This entry gives the number of deaths of infants under one year old in a given year per 1,000 live births in the same year. | | | The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Infant mortality rate |
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| | SECRETS OF THE DEAD . Killer Flu . Background PBS |
| | Many flu victims in 1918 displayed a distinctive dusky blue-gray pallor on their face, lips, and ears, called heliotrope cyanosis -- a mark of a patient who is being suffocated to death by a buildup of fluid and cells in his lungs. | | | Flu mortality rates typically linger around 0.1 percent (despite the widespread availability of flu vaccines and modern antiviral drugs, 36,000 people still die every year in the United States from complications of the flu); in the 1918 flu, the rate was twenty-five times higher, with deaths usually the result of secondary bacterial pneumonia or bronchitis. | | | One to two days after infection, the symptoms appear: shaking chills, fatigue, muscle ache, listlessness, and high fever. |
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| | Bird flu (avian virus) may have 75% mortality rate |
| | Jennings has been doing research with the World Health Organization (WHO) to find a preventive vaccine. | | | WHO has stated, however, that there is no evidence of the bird flu being contagious among humans, and that it is difficult to calculate a death rate, as there is hardly any accurate statistical data. | | | Please send any medical news or health news press releases to: |
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| | NC DHHS release: Infant mortality rate remains the lowest in North Carolina’s history |
| | “These are but two ways to reduce infant mortality; many other efforts are also under way. | | | Of those live births, 59.6 percent were to white non-Hispanics, 22.8 percent to black non-Hispanics, 13.6 percent to Hispanics, and 1.4 percent to American Indians, with the remaining 2.7 percent to other racial/ethnic groups. | | | Rates based on fewer than 10 deaths are considered “unstable” or unreliable because a drop or rise of just one or two deaths yields a very different rate, which can result in large rate fluctuations from year to year. |
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| | CBC News: Uncertainty surrounds SARS mortality rate |
| | But not all countries are defining SARS cases the same way, and the numbers change rapidly. | | | The problem for epidemiologists who track medical trends is the SARS outbreak is in its early stages. | | | No one can say with certainty how far it will spread, or what the true mortality rate is. |
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| | Infant Mortality Rate |
| | One is the offering of health insurance to uninsured pregnant women through the Maryland Children’s Health Program. | | | Health Department officials believe a combination of factors are responsible for the lower rate. | | | The overall Maryland infant mortality rate of 7.4 per 1,000 live births is slightly higher than the overall preliminary national rate of 7.1 for 1999. |
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