Epidemiology for Public Health Practice 5th Edition by Robert Friis,Thomas Sellers

تمرين 1

Define the following terms:
a. crude death rate
b. age-specific rate
c. cause-specific rate
d. proportional mortality ratio (PMR)e. maternal mortality rate
f. infant mortality rate
g. neonatal mortality rate
h. fetal death rate and late fetal death rate
i. fetal death ratio
j. perinatal mortality rate
k. postneonatal mortality rate
l. crude birth rate
m. general fertility rate
n. age-adjusted (standardized) rate
o. direct method of adjustment
p. indirect method of adjustment
q. standardized mortality ratio (SMR)