Other common measures of disease frequency
• Crude death (mortality) rate: Total number of deaths from all causes / 1,000 people For one year
• Cause-specific, age-specific, race-specific death rate
• Live-birth rate: total number of livebirths/For one year 1,000 people (sometimes women of childbearing age)
• Infant mortality rate: # deaths of infants under 1 year of age/For one year 1,000 live-births
• Case fatality rate: # of deaths/ # cases of disease for a defined period of time
• Survival rate: # living cases/ # cases of disease for a defined period of time