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Morbidity statistics

John Fry (General Practitioner, Beckenham, Kent, UK)

Aslib Proceedings

ISSN: 0001-253X

Article publication date: 1 June 1986

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Abstract

I am going to give you a really personal paper — personal because its based on my experiences, delving and fighting my way into the morass on morbidity data and all there is to get, and trying to put it into some order. To paraphrase Shakespeare's Mark Anthony ‘We only die once’ that's mortality ‘but before we do we suffer many ills’ and that's morbidity. The frequency and the cost of morbidity is more important than mortality which is a very final exit. Therefore logically we need to know very much more about morbidity than mortality but however, and I suppose that's the reason for this meeting, collection and trying to get morbidity statistics is difficult as Michael Alderson referred to in his paper (see pp.183–186).

Citation

Fry, J. (1986), "Morbidity statistics", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 38 No. 6/7, pp. 187-192. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb051013

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MCB UP Ltd

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