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The term childhood disease refers to disease that is contracted or becomes symptomatic before the age of 18 or 21 years old. Many of these diseases can also be contracted by adults. Some childhood diseases include:
Some common indicators used to indicate health include total fertility rate, infant mortality rate, life expectancy, crude birth and death rate.As of 2017, Singapore has a Total Fertility Rate of 1.16 [5] children born per woman, an Infant Mortality rate of 2.2 deaths per 1000 live births, [6] Crude Birth Rate of 8.9 births per 1000 people [7] and a Death Rate of 3 deaths per 1000 inhabitants. [8]
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.
The under-five mortality rate (U5MR) is the number of deaths of infants and children under five years old per 1000 live births. The under-five mortality rate for the world is 39 deaths according to the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO). 5.3 million children under age five died in 2018, 14,722 every day.
Ischaemic heart diseases: 18.5 4: Cerebrovascular disease (including stroke) 6.3 5: External causes of morbidity and mortality: 4.0 6: Hypertensive diseases (including hypertensive heart disease) 3.4 7: Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis: 2.4 8: Urinary tract infection: 1.9 9: Other heart diseases: 1.9 10: Diabetes mellitus: 1.5 10 ...
Before the development and widespread availability of accurate COVID-19 tests, doctors faced challenges in rendering the correct diagnosis, [22] [23] as the two diseases share some of the same early symptoms, [21] [22] [23] and have clinical and laboratory characteristics in common. [24]
The National Centre for Infectious Diseases (Abbreviation: NCID; Malay: Pusat Nasional bagi Penyakit Berjangkit; Tamil: தேசிய தொற்றுநோய் மையம்; Chinese: 国家传染病中心), previously known as the Communicable Disease Centre (Abbreviation: CDC), is a national public health institute under the Ministry of Health of Singapore.
Pages in category "Disease outbreaks in Singapore" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.