MEASURES OF MORTALITY ‘The various measures of fertility are cride death rate, specific death rate, standardized death rate, infant mortality rate, neonatal mortality rate, maternal mortality rate, as discussed below. 1. Crude death rate: It is defined as number of deaths occurring in a given population over 1 year. Annualenide death mate = ——Amualdeaths 999 ‘Annual mean population 2. Specific death rate: It is defined as the number of deaths occurring in a given population in a Specific age group over 1 year. Number of deaths ina specificage group in ‘Specific death rate = 28¥en area 1000 year population of that age group inthe * givenarea 3. Standard death rates: We can obtain standardized death rates by two means, ie. direct method ect method. © Direct method: It gives the death rate of some standard lation if it had the mortality of the given community or the death rate that occurred in the community if its population was distributed as that of the standard, + Indinet method thin method the etude Heth St sade by applving 9 faster measurement of relative mortality proneness of the population of communtiy, Example: GAUNG GG EIB WE stanctarcised HOU rates of WE vio populations A and B fron the following data. A B Ase Group (ears) | Population Deaths | Population Death Below 5 10,000 300 30,000 900, 530 15,000 350 40.000 1000 ‘Above 3) 5000 250 700) 20 0000 300 7000 2100 Crudedéath mie - Noofdeaths ,. y599 Population 900, - x 1000 = (A) = so p05 * 1000 = 30 (By = 2229 x 1000 = 27.27 77,000SAE HERE IA tang population of toxon:A os sonar population a B Age Group Deaths Per Deaths Per (rears) | Fopulation | Thousand | Death Rate | Population | Thousand | Death Rate Below 5 10,000 300. 30. 3000 900, 30 5.20 15,000 350 23 40,000 1000 5 Above 30 5000 25 50 7000 200 5 Total 30,000, 900. saci 77,00 2100 — Standart death te (town A) =£19.000 X 30) + (15.000 x 23.3) + (S000 x50) 10,000 + 15,000 + $000 3.00.00 + 3.49,500 4 2.50,000, 30,000 =»9 (30,000 x 30) + (40,000 x 25) + (7000 x 28.5) fandard death — (30,000 x 30) + (40,000 x 25) + (7000 x 28.5) —_—e 30,000 + 40,000 + 7000 — 200,000 + 1000,000 + 199,500 77,000 979% So, death rate in town A is higher than town B. Infant mortality rate: It is defined as number of deaths under 1 year of age among.a given population in a particular area. a Number of deaths under 1 year of age Infant mortality mate Numberoflirebiits * 1000 5. Neonatal mortality rate: It is defined as number of deaths under 1 month of age (28 days) among a given population in a particular area, rate = Number of deaths under 1 mouth Neonatal mortality ie jumber of live 1000 6. Fetal death rate: It is defined as Total number of fetal death during a year x Total deliveries during a year 1000