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has gloss | eng: 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... |
lexicalization | eng: Standardised mortality rate |
instance of | e/Medical statistics |
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