DVM 2110 Lecture Notes - Standardized Mortality Ratio, Case Fatality Rate, Perinatal Mortality
20 Mar 2014
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Health: mortality rate; # of people who"ve died divided by the total people were at risk of dying, a percent (crude death rate) Minimum level of income deemed necessary to achieve an adequate standard of living . Total cost of all essential resources a person needs for one year. Sometimes defined relative to income (eu defines as making 60% of median income) In developing countries, the biggest cost is shelter, such as mortgage payments. Canada"s licos (low income cut-offs); if you make under , you"re technically in poverty. Relative poverty vs. absolute poverty (sometimes used to mean extreme poverty) If you don"t have two or more of the following, you"re in absolute poverty: food, basic education, sanitation, safe water, health, shelter, information, access to services. Every method to find it is flawed or biased: prevalence; number of cases, incidence; number of new cases over a period of time.
