Morbidity
noun
The condition of being unhealthy or sick.
The doctor studied the morbidity rates of the disease in different countries.
Often appears as...
- morbidity rate
- morbidity and mortality
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Formal
Technical
noun
Interest in unpleasant or gloomy subjects like death or disease.
His morbidity was evident in his dark and gloomy paintings.
Often appears as...
- gothic morbidity
- morbidity fascination
noun
The condition of being unhealthy or sick.
The doctor studied the morbidity rates of the disease in different countries.
Often appears as...
- morbidity rate
- morbidity and mortality
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
noun
Interest in unpleasant or gloomy subjects like death or disease.
His morbidity was evident in his dark and gloomy paintings.
Often appears as...
- gothic morbidity
- morbidity fascination
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Beyond Illness
Morbidity extends to prevalence of diseases, not just a single incident of sickness.
The morbidity of diabetes is rising globally.
Pro Tip 2/3Medical Jargon
Often used in medical statistics, 'morbidity' can refer to different levels of health decline.
Physicians examined morbidity outcomes after the vaccine was introduced.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Mortality
'Morbidity' refers to disease incidence, whereas 'mortality' is about death rates.
Morbidity and mortality were both considered in the health study.
Pro Tip 1/3Beyond Illness
Morbidity extends to prevalence of diseases, not just a single incident of sickness.
The morbidity of diabetes is rising globally.
Pro Tip 2/3Medical Jargon
Often used in medical statistics, 'morbidity' can refer to different levels of health decline.
Physicians examined morbidity outcomes after the vaccine was introduced.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Mortality
'Morbidity' refers to disease incidence, whereas 'mortality' is about death rates.
Morbidity and mortality were both considered in the health study.
Pro Tip 1/3Beyond Illness
Morbidity extends to prevalence of diseases, not just a single incident of sickness.
The morbidity of diabetes is rising globally.
Pro Tip 2/3Medical Jargon
Often used in medical statistics, 'morbidity' can refer to different levels of health decline.
Physicians examined morbidity outcomes after the vaccine was introduced.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Mortality
'Morbidity' refers to disease incidence, whereas 'mortality' is about death rates.
Morbidity and mortality were both considered in the health study.
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the ability to work from home; the individual characteristics of the workers themselves, how much risk they might have or how much risk it would be for them to bring that back into their household if they have people living in their household who would be at increased risk from morbidity, mortality, from suffering and death, from COVID.
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Thomas Insel: Toward a...
About one in five people will suffer from one of these disorders in the course of their lifetime. A second, of course, is that, for some people, these become truly disabling, and it's about four to five percent, perhaps one in 20. But what really drives these numbers, this high morbidity, and to some extent the high mortality,
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The new era of positive...
Conversely, if you have none of the three, the empty life, the sum is less than the parts. And what we're asking now Does the very same relationship -- physical health, morbidity, how long you live and productivity -- follow the same relationship? That is, in a corporation,
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How we can improve...
our maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity rates would plummet. Our international ranking would no longer be an embarrassment. But the truth is, we've had decades of unacceptably high rates of maternal death and life-threatening complications during delivery
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A simple way to break a...
Now, with these same brain processes, we've gone from learning to survive to literally killing ourselves with these habits. Obesity and smoking are among the leading preventable causes of morbidity and mortality in the world. So back to my breath.
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On positive psychology -...
life the sum is greater than then the parts if you've got all three conversely if you have none of the three the empty life the sum is less than parts and what we're asking now is does the very same relationship physical health morbidity
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Improving diagnosis in...
the old way because I'm obsessed with like biological thrillers and stuff I look I love that stuff that people would you know a couple months would go by and all of a sudden in the cdc's morbidity and mortality report that would be like
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The pharmacy of the...
so they can better optimize prevention, diagnostics and therapy. And when we can do that, we can do some interesting things. Take, for example, hypertension. It's the number one risk factor for early death and morbidity worldwide.
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Toward a new understandin...
schizophrenia anorexia borderline personality there's a long list of disorders that contribute and as I mentioned before often early in life but it's not just the mortality from these disorders it's also morbidity if you
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The Ebola Outbreak of...
both high degree of transmissibility and high degree of morbidity and mortality. REID If something like that spreads around the world, we're just not ready to fight it.
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How tech companies can...
the ability to work from home; the individual characteristics of the workers themselves, how much risk they might have or how much risk it would be for them to bring that back into their household if they have people living in their household who would be at increased risk from morbidity, mortality, from suffering and death, from COVID.
Video examples
Thomas Insel: Toward a...
About one in five people will suffer from one of these disorders in the course of their lifetime. A second, of course, is that, for some people, these become truly disabling, and it's about four to five percent, perhaps one in 20. But what really drives these numbers, this high morbidity, and to some extent the high mortality,
Video examples
The new era of positive...
Conversely, if you have none of the three, the empty life, the sum is less than the parts. And what we're asking now Does the very same relationship -- physical health, morbidity, how long you live and productivity -- follow the same relationship? That is, in a corporation,
Video examples
How we can improve...
our maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity rates would plummet. Our international ranking would no longer be an embarrassment. But the truth is, we've had decades of unacceptably high rates of maternal death and life-threatening complications during delivery
Video examples
A simple way to break a...
Now, with these same brain processes, we've gone from learning to survive to literally killing ourselves with these habits. Obesity and smoking are among the leading preventable causes of morbidity and mortality in the world. So back to my breath.
Video examples
On positive psychology -...
life the sum is greater than then the parts if you've got all three conversely if you have none of the three the empty life the sum is less than parts and what we're asking now is does the very same relationship physical health morbidity
Video examples
Improving diagnosis in...
the old way because I'm obsessed with like biological thrillers and stuff I look I love that stuff that people would you know a couple months would go by and all of a sudden in the cdc's morbidity and mortality report that would be like
Video examples
The pharmacy of the...
so they can better optimize prevention, diagnostics and therapy. And when we can do that, we can do some interesting things. Take, for example, hypertension. It's the number one risk factor for early death and morbidity worldwide.
Video examples
Toward a new understandin...
schizophrenia anorexia borderline personality there's a long list of disorders that contribute and as I mentioned before often early in life but it's not just the mortality from these disorders it's also morbidity if you
Video examples
The Ebola Outbreak of...
both high degree of transmissibility and high degree of morbidity and mortality. REID If something like that spreads around the world, we're just not ready to fight it.
Example 1 of 10
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Alice Dreger
American Scientist
What we should care about is health - reduction of morbidity and mortality. Too often, we instead pay attention to whether something is 'normal.' A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins, even though that separation is likely to leave them worse off.
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Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
French Scientist
In the tropical and subtropical regions, endemic malaria takes first place almost everywhere among the causes of morbidity and mortality, and it constitutes the principal obstacle to the acclimatization of Europeans in these regions.
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Esther Duflo
French Economist
For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, and their children are more likely to die in infancy.
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Brian Sibley
English Writer
Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die.
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Lois Capps
American Politician
Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals.
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Marti Noxon
American Writer
Of all the mental illnesses, anorexia has the highest morbidity rate. It's serious.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
English Writer
With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
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Alice Dreger
American Scientist
What we should care about is health - reduction of morbidity and mortality. Too often, we instead pay attention to whether something is 'normal.' A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins, even though that separation is likely to leave them worse off.
Quote examples
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
French Scientist
In the tropical and subtropical regions, endemic malaria takes first place almost everywhere among the causes of morbidity and mortality, and it constitutes the principal obstacle to the acclimatization of Europeans in these regions.
Quote examples
Esther Duflo
French Economist
For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, and their children are more likely to die in infancy.
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Brian Sibley
English Writer
Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die.
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Lois Capps
American Politician
Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals.
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Marti Noxon
American Writer
Of all the mental illnesses, anorexia has the highest morbidity rate. It's serious.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
English Writer
With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.
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