Alice Dreger

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.

American Scientist

Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

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.

French Scientist

Esther Duflo

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.

French Economist

Brian Sibley

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.

English Writer

Lois Capps

Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals.

American Politician

Marti Noxon

Of all the mental illnesses, anorexia has the highest morbidity rate. It's serious.

American Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

Morbidity extends to prevalence of diseases, not just a single incident of sickness.

Beyond Illness

Often used in medical statistics, 'morbidity' can refer to different levels of health decline.

Medical Jargon

'Morbidity' refers to disease incidence, whereas 'mortality' is about death rates.

Not Mortality

Where morbidity denotes a grim interest, it can imply a person's psychological state.

Dark Fascination

Morbidity includes wider themes beyond just death, embracing various troubles and fears.

More than Death

Understanding morbidity in art or literature often requires cultural context.

Cultural Tones

 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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 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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 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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 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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 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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 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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 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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 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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 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

Toward a new understandin...

 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.