DeCS

Descriptor English:

Mortality

Descriptor Spanish:

Mortalidad

Spanish from Spain

Descriptor	mortalidad
Entry term(s)	determinantes de la mortalidad determinantes de mortalidad disminución de la mortalidad estadísticas de mortalidad exceso de mortalidad factores de mortalidad factores determinantes de mortalidad letalidad mortalidad diferencial mortalidad excesiva mortalidad por edad mortalidad por grupo de edad reducción de la mortalidad tasa bruta de mortalidad tasa de casos fatales tasa de fatalidad tasa de letalidad tasa de mortalidad tasa de mortalidad bruta tasa de mortalidad por edad tasa de mortalidad por grupo de edad tasas de mortalidad específicas por edad índice de casos fatales índice de letalidad índice de mortalidad
Scope note:	Todas las muertes notificadas en una población.

Descriptor Portuguese:

Mortalidade

Descriptor French:

Mortalité

Entry term(s):

Age Specific Death Rate
Age-Specific Death Rate
Age-Specific Death Rates
CFR Case Fatality Rate
Case Fatality Rate
Case Fatality Rates
Crude Death Rate
Crude Death Rates
Crude Mortality Rate
Crude Mortality Rates
Death Rate
Death Rate, Age-Specific
Death Rate, Crude
Death Rates
Death Rates, Age-Specific
Decline, Mortality
Declines, Mortality
Determinant, Mortality
Determinants, Mortality
Differential Mortalities
Differential Mortality
Excess Mortalities
Excess Mortality
Mortalities
Mortalities, Differential
Mortalities, Excess
Mortality Decline
Mortality Declines
Mortality Determinant
Mortality Determinants
Mortality Rate
Mortality Rate, Crude
Mortality, Differential
Mortality, Excess
Rate, Age-Specific Death
Rate, Case Fatality
Rate, Crude Death
Rate, Crude Mortality
Rate, Death
Rate, Mortality
Rates, Age-Specific Death
Rates, Case Fatality
Rates, Death
Rates, Mortality

Tree number(s):

E05.318.308.985.550
N01.224.935.698
N06.850.505.400.975.550
N06.850.520.308.985.550
SP3.311.300.392.432
SP5.467.413.330.903

RDF Unique Identifier:

https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009026

Scope note:

All deaths reported in a given population.

Annotation:

human & animal; a statistical concept, not for individual deaths in case reports ( = FATAL OUTCOME); do not confuse with DEATH, the biological, physiological or psychological concept; IM general only; prefer / mortal with diseases: Manual 19.7+, 19.8.47; specify geographic term if pertinent

Concept UI	M0014075
Scope note	All deaths reported in a given population.
Preferred term	Mortality
Entry term(s)	Death Rate Death Rates Mortalities Mortality Rate Rate, Death Rate, Mortality Rates, Death Rates, Mortality

Concept UI	M0014079
Preferred term	Case Fatality Rate
Entry term(s)	CFR Case Fatality Rate Case Fatality Rates Rate, Case Fatality Rates, Case Fatality

Concept UI	M0014076
Preferred term	Mortality, Excess
Entry term(s)	Excess Mortalities Excess Mortality Mortalities, Excess

Concept UI	M0014080
Preferred term	Decline, Mortality
Entry term(s)	Declines, Mortality Mortality Decline Mortality Declines

Concept UI	M0014077
Preferred term	Mortality Determinants
Entry term(s)	Determinant, Mortality Determinants, Mortality Mortality Determinant

Concept UI	M0014074
Preferred term	Mortality, Differential
Entry term(s)	Differential Mortalities Differential Mortality Mortalities, Differential

Concept UI	M0014073
Preferred term	Age-Specific Death Rate
Entry term(s)	Age Specific Death Rate Age-Specific Death Rates Death Rate, Age-Specific Death Rates, Age-Specific Rate, Age-Specific Death Rates, Age-Specific Death

Concept UI	M000731653
Preferred term	Crude Death Rate
Entry term(s)	Crude Death Rates Crude Mortality Rate Crude Mortality Rates Death Rate, Crude Mortality Rate, Crude Rate, Crude Death Rate, Crude Mortality

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