Basic Health Indicators

Cases
Before understanding any of the following terms, it’s important to define what a case of a disease is, otherwise it is impossible to compare data. A case could be hospitalized patients or deaths. It can be either discrete (present or absent) or continuous (BP, serum cholesterol, intensity of infection).

Survival Rate
Survival rate is the proportion of survivors in a specified group, usually patients with a disease, who survived in a specified period of time.

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