WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “incidence”,mortality,morbidity,fatality?

Hi!
'Need some clarification here. Are you asking for the definition of each of these words or are you linking them to "incidence" or the incident rate?

For example, a fatality is a death or dead body.
A fatality rate is the noted death rate in a series of people effected by the same incident like a disaster, war or famine.

Melodie

Incidence - the frequency with which something occurs. In medical terms, it usually refers to the statistical occurance of (e.g.) a disease within the general population, measured by how many cases there are per x thousand of the population generally.

Mortality - The ratio of the total number of deaths to the total population. Can also refer to the rate of death from a particular disea

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00Morbidity - diseased condition or state, or the incidence of a disease or of all diseases in a population. 02br
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00Mortality - The ratio of the total number of deaths to the total population. Can also refer to

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0 Yes, sorry Julie - I left "rate" out. 0-

I really don't know how incidence and fatality appeared.I was wondering only about the meanings of mortality and morbidity because they seem rather the same.

Thanks

Cherish

hi..

mortality is the rate of a disease that cause death.. for eg. if x disaese mortality is 5%, that means 5 of 100 sick persons can die because of this disease.

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