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mortality
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mortality: see vital statistics vital statistics, primarily records of the number of births and deaths in a population. Other factors, such as number of marriages and causes of death, by age groups, are regularly included.
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mortality
1. great loss of life, as in war or disaster
2. the number of deaths in a given period


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He further said that the Health Department was trying hard to minimize the mortality rates of mothers and children.
In the poorest households in developing countries the annual rate is 107 deaths per 1,000 live births; the overall rate in industrial nations is 6 deaths per 1,000 live births, A number of countries in Latin America, such as Cuba and Chile, have lowered their child mortality rates by more than 50 percent since 1990 and are more than halfway to cutting them by two-thirds, the target set out in the Millennium Development Goals.
He said he realised it would work after there was a huge drop in mortality rates when he first tried it out in Ethiopia in 2000.
 
 
 
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