Verified answer

Question/Answer:

Directions:

Read the questions carefully. Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your answer

in a piece of paper and pass to your teacher.

1. Estimates the frequency of a diseases in a defined population during aspecified time.

• A birth rate
• B. crude death rate
• C mortality rate
• D. morbidity rate

2. Estimates the frequency of occurrence of death in a defined population during a specified time.

• A birth rate
• B crude death rate
• C. morbidity rate
• d. mortality rate

3. Which is NOT part of the top five (5) leading causes of mortality according to 2018 Philippine

Health Statistics?

• A. accident
• B. ischemic heart disease
• C. pneumonia
• D. malignant neoplasm

Explanation:

1. A morbidity rate is the rate at which acute and chronic diseases occur in a population.
2. A mortality rate is a measure of the frequency of occurrence of death in a defined population during a specified interval.
3. The leading causes of death are diseases of the heart, diseases of the vascular system, pneumonias, malignant neoplasms/cancers, all forms of tuberculosis, accidents, diabetes mellitus, nephritis/nephritic syndrome.