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Child
Mortality Rate (CMR)
- the annual number of deaths among children 1-4 of age per 1,000
live births. (TWG on
Maternal and Child Mortality, NSCB)
Crude
Death Rate (CDR) - annual number of deaths per 1,000
population. (National
Statistics Office)
Foetal
Death Rate (FDR) - measures pregnancy wastage. Death
of the product of conception occurs prior to its complete
expulsion, irrespective of duration of pregnancy.
(Department of Health)
Infant
Mortality Rate (IMR) - the annual number of deaths
of infants under one year of age per 1,000 live births.
(TWG on Maternal and Child
Mortality, NSCB)
Maternal Death - the death of woman while pregnant
or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the
duration and the site of the pregnancy or its management, but not
from accidental or incidental causes.
(Department of Health)
Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) - the annual number of
deaths of women from pregnancy-related causes per 100,000
livebirths. (TWG on
Maternal and Child Mortality, NSCB)
Morbidity - any departure, subjective or objective,
from a stage of physiological well-being.
(Department of Health)
Under 5
Mortality Rate (U5MR) - the annual number of deaths
of children under age 5 per 1,000 live births averaged over the
previous five years. (TWG
on Maternal and Child Mortality, NSCB) |