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Morbidity vs. Mortality

Morbidity and Mortality are two terms which on reading seem similar to one another but actually are very different from each other. Unlike most words which look alike but are different, these two terms are not the opposite of each other and are unlinked. Morbidity is a medical term which in short refers to being too healthy for one’s liking. Mortality is a philosophical term which means forever. Expanding on the initial definitions of both these words, morbidity is a medical condition in which a person in mere words, becomes unhealthy. This is done by gaining a lot of weight by overeating or other factors. Mortality, on the other hand, is a large number of people who have died in a particular area. This explanation tells that both these terms are maybe related only in one way, which is the use of these words while talking about something grave. Other than that, there is no similarity between them. There are a few differences between them such as morbidity is not peculiar to a particular region or a class of people, it deals with individuals who are suffering from a disease. Mortality is unique to an area, it is the number of a pupil who have lost their lives in society. Most of the data related to the obesity are obtained from the World Health Organizations while most of the data related to deaths will be found with the national organizations for demography. A minor variation in their definitions can lead us to think that morbidity is the condition in which a living person can become mortal while a human person cannot be in an existing situation. Mortality is a term which is not commonly used among people in daily lives, but morbid is a word which is frequently used to express the state of someone who is in front of you. A detailed explanation of utilization and meaning along with the main differences is given in the article next.

Key Differences

Morbidity is a term which is used to pronounce someone overweight or unhealthy, mortality is the use of this word to convey the demise of several people in an area.
Morbidity is independent in a given area; mortality is strongly linked to a particular field.
Morbidity is a term more utilized by the department of health while mortality is the time more employed in the office of demographics.
The information related to morbidity can be found by the type of medical condition and personal information. For mortality, it is only possible to collect data from the number of deaths.
In the pure expression, morbidity is the number of occurrence in a population while mortality is expressed as some deaths in a population.
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Jul 09, 2016
Morbidity is predicted with the help of several different systems while mortality is only showed regarding some lives lost per thousand individuals.
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Jul 09, 2016
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Morbidity can be used to express the state of an individual, but death is always used to show the number of several people.

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A term which is used to pronounce someone overweight or unhealthy
Used to convey the demise of several people in an area

Offices

More utilized by the department of health
More employed in the office of demographics.

Usage

Can be used to express the state of an individual
Always used to show the number of several people.

Demography

Independent in a given area
Dependent on a given area

Morbidity and Mortality Definitions

Morbidity

The quality of being morbid; morbidness.
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Mortality

The quality or condition of being mortal.

Morbidity

The rate of incidence of a disease.

Mortality

Mortals considered as a group; the human race.

Morbidity

The quality of being unhealthful or diseased, sometimes including the cause.

Mortality

Death, especially of large numbers; heavy loss of life
The mortality wrought by an epidemic.

Morbidity

The quality of being morbid; an attitude or state of mind marked by gloom.
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Mortality

Death rate.

Morbidity

(medicine) The incidence of a disease, as a rate of a population which is affected.

Mortality

The rate of failure or loss
The high mortality among family-run farms.

Morbidity

An occurrence of illness or disease, or a single symptom of that illness.

Mortality

The state or quality of being mortal.

Morbidity

Adverse effects caused by a medical treatment such as surgery.

Mortality

The state of being susceptible to death.

Morbidity

The sickness rate of a population.

Mortality

(archaic) The quality of being punishable by death.

Morbidity

The quality or state of being morbid.

Mortality

(archaic) The quality of causing death.

Morbidity

Morbid quality; disease; sickness.

Mortality

The number of deaths; and, usually and especially, the number of deaths per time unit (usually per year), expressed as a rate.

Morbidity

Amount of disease; rate of sickness.

Mortality

Deaths resulting from an event (such as a war, epidemic or disaster).

Morbidity

The ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year

Mortality

The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.

Morbidity

The relative incidence of a particular disease

Mortality

(figuratively) Death.

Morbidity

The quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you

Mortality

Mortals collectively.

Mortality

The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying.
When I saw her die,I then did think on your mortality.

Mortality

Human life; the life of a mortal being.
From this instantThere 's nothing serious in mortality.

Mortality

Those who are, or that which is, mortal; the human race; humanity; human nature.
Take these tears, mortality's relief.

Mortality

Death; destruction.

Mortality

The whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a given community; also, the proportion of deaths to population, or to a specific number of the population; death rate; as, a time of great, or low, mortality; the mortality among the settlers was alarming.

Mortality

The quality or state of being mortal

Mortality

The ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year

Definition of Mortality

Mortality is a term which is usually heard in movies, it is not that common in day to day language. It can have different meanings and how it is used, but the main way of defining it is the state of being dead. That means the loss of lives on a bigger scale where more than one people have been killed in any way. It can also be explained as the number of deaths in a particular area because of multiple or specific reasons. Mortality is always dependent on area, there has to have some lives lost in a particular piece of land to use this term. It was derived from a French word ‘mortal’ which has the same meaning on dying in abundance. Most of the statistics related to it are with the demographic department, and it is calculated as the number of deaths per 1000 people. It is always used to explain the condition of a group of individuals.

Definition of Morbidity

Morbidity deals with the state of human body, that how well or ill the state of human being is. It can also be termed as being unwell. It does not involve any loss of life; it is just the illness or the amount of people who are ill because of various reasons. Another factor associated with it is that morbidity is independent of location it can be anywhere, at any number of places and among any type of people. In the United States, the details about patients are published every week and includes different stats and recommendations related to it. This practice is being introduced in other countries as well, but the primary organization which keeps all the data related to morbidity worldwide is World Health Organization. It should also be noted that there can be an unlimited number of diseases, internal or external and all the data about them is included in the report. It is measured individually and through different systems which have been introduced by various organizations.

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