e/Standardised mortality rate

New Query

Information
has glosseng: Standardized mortality ratio (indirect age adjustment) tells how many persons, per thousand of the population, will die in a given year and what the causes of death will be. Such statistics have many uses. * Life insurance companies periodically update their premiums based on the mortality rate, adjusted for age. * Medical researchers can track disease-related deaths and shift focus and funding to address increasing or decreasing risks. * Organizations, both non- and for-profit, can utilize such statistics to justify their missions. * Regarding occupational uses: Mortality tables are also often used when numbers of deaths for each age-specific stratum are not available. It is also used to study mortality in an occupationally exposed population: Do people who work in a certain industry, such as mining or construction, have a higher mortality than people of the same age in the general population? Is an additional risk associated with that occupation? To answer the question of whether a population of miners has a higher mortality than we would expect in a similar population that is not engaged in mining, the age-specific rates for such a known population, such as all men of the same...
lexicalizationeng: Standardised mortality rate
instance ofe/Medical statistics

Query

Word: (case sensitive)
Language: (ISO 639-3 code, e.g. "eng" for English)


Lexvo © 2008-2025 Gerard de Melo.   Contact   Legal Information / Imprint