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In a small study of 26 decedents, [better source needed] the pandemized COVID-19 and infection-related disease were "major contributors" to patients' death. [12] Such deaths are sometimes evaluated via excess deaths per capita – the COVID-19 pandemic deaths between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2021, are estimated to be ~18.2 million.
Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.
2006 Philippines dengue epidemic 2006 Philippines: Dengue fever: 1,000 [245] 2006–2007 East Africa Rift Valley fever outbreak: 2006–2007 East Africa: Rift Valley fever: 394 [246] Mweka Ebola epidemic: 2007 Democratic Republic of the Congo: Ebola: 187 [247] 2007 Ethiopia cholera epidemic 2007 Ethiopia: Cholera: 684 [248] 2007 Iraq cholera ...
List of childhood diseases and disorders; List of endocrine diseases; List of eponymous diseases; List of eye diseases and disorders; List of intestinal diseases; List of infectious diseases; List of human disease case fatality rates; List of notifiable diseases – diseases that should be reported to public health services, e.g., hospitals ...
Dental caries is one of the most common chronic diseases worldwide. In the United States it is the most common chronic disease of childhood. Risk factors for dental caries includes living in poverty, poor education, low socioeconomic status, being part of an ethnic minority group, having a developmental disability, recent immigrants and people ...
Childhood chronic illnesses can have large-scale implications for societies. One to two percent of healthcare budgets in developed countries is spent on asthma, the most common childhood chronic illness. [42] While not specific to childhood disease, the CDC reports that 90% of the U.S. national spending on healthcare goes to chronic diseases ...
Explanatory model of chronic pain. Chronic pain is defined as reoccurring or persistent pain lasting more than 3 months. [1] The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines pain as "An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage". [2]
As of September 2020, the Philippines has a population of nearly 110 million and a population density of 368 per square kilometer. 32% of the population of the Philippines is under 15 years old, and only 22.2% is over 60. In the Philippines, 16.6% of the population lived below the national poverty line in 2018. [8] [9]