HEALTH STATUS

1. Child Mortality Rate (CMR) - the probability of dying between exact age one and age five, expressed as the number of deaths of children from exact age one to less than age five during a given period per 1,000 children surviving to age 12 months at the beginning of the period.

2. Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR) - the proportion of currently married women in the reproductive ages of 15-49 years reporting current use of any contraceptive method.

3. Crude Death Rate (CDR)¹ – the ratio of the number of deaths occurring within one year to the mid-year population expressed per 1,000 population.

4. Fetal Death Rate (FDR)² – the ratio of the number of fetal deaths in a population occurring within a given period to the total number of live births and fetal deaths occurring within the same period, expressed per 1,000. Fetal Death (deadborn fetus) - death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy. [WHO]

5. Incidence Rate (of a disease) 2 - the rate at which new cases of a disease occur in the population. The numerator is the number of new cases of a disease that occur during a given period (usually a year), and the denominator is the number of the population at risk of experiencing the disease during the same period, usually expressed as the number of new cases per 100,000 persons.

6. Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) – the probability of dying between birth and age one, expressed as the number of infant deaths or deaths occurring before reaching 12 months of life in a given period per 1,000 live births.

7. Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) – the ratio between the number of women who died (for reasons of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium) to the number of reported livebirths in a given year, expressed as the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births

8. Mean Age at Death - the arithmetic average of the ages at death occurring in a population during a given year. [GTS]

9. Median Age at Death - the median of the ages at death occurring in a population during a given year which divides the total number of deaths in a population classified by age into equal halves.

10. Morbidity – the frequency of disease and illness, injuries, and disabilities in a population. [PH]

11. Prevalence Proportion 2,3 –the total number of persons who have an attribute or disease at a particular point in time divided by the size of the population at risk of having the attribute or disease at this point in time (or midway through the period), usually expressed as the number of cases per 100,000 persons.

12. Under Five Mortality Rate (U5MR) - the probability of dying between birth and age five, expressed as the number of deaths below age five per 1,000 live births during a given period

HEALTH SERVICE

13. Hospital Bed-Population Ratio – the ratio of hospital beds to the population, usually expressed as the number of available hospital beds for every 1,000 population.

14. Hospital Bed Occupancy Rate - the number of in-patient hospital beds occupied divided by the average number of hospital beds, expressed in percent.

Definitions are per NSCB Resolution No. 8, Series of 2006
Annex BR-08-2006-01