Morbidity and mortality
Mapping of morbidity (disease) and mortality (death) can help to identify:
clusters
sources and
potential transmission routes
The patterns of morbidity and mortality that are important to investigate are:
Endemic (existing) and emerging (recently appearing) disease
both communicable (infectious) and non-communicable disease (non-infectious)
Across all health related responses to aid good decision making it is essential to track health over time, for example in epidemics this will help understand the progression of the incident i.e. are cases increasing or decreasing.
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