mortality risk
Chance of dying
Mortality risk is the probability of death within a specified period, used in medicine, insurance, and public health.
Doctors assess mortality risk when recommending treatments; insurers calculate it to set premiums.
Smoking significantly increases mortality risk.
The term often appears in studies comparing outcomes: The drug reduced mortality risk by 30 percent.
- actuarial tablesStatistical mortality predictions
- life insuranceContract paying upon death
- diseaseDisorder impairing normal function
- agingGrowing older over time
- old ageAdvanced years of life
comorbidities · biostatistics · cause of death · clinical trials · case fatality rate · genetic predisposition · malnutrition · epidemiology · vaccination programs · heart disease · high blood pressure · violence · accidents · prognoses · public health policy · medical treatments · environmental hazards · age
- life insuranceterm life, whole life, life insurance, beneficiary, premium
- geriatric surgeryelderly patients, hip fractures, hip replacement, frailty, geriatrician
- risk assessmentexposure assessment, dose-response, safety margins, vulnerable populations
- underwritingunderwriting, underwriter, eligibility criteria, conditional approval, policy limits
- insuranceinsurance, coverage, auto insurance, life insurance, home insurance
- death lawdeath certificate, death certificates, death tax, death penalty, death benefits
mortality risksurvival rate
Share of survivors measured
survival odds · life expectancy · survivability · longevity · life preservation
mortality riskimmortality
Exemption from death
safety · invulnerability · protection · health security · life assurance