Sentence examples for higher than average mortality rate from inspiring English sources

Epidemiologic studies of human populations in these same areas show a higher than average mortality rate due to cancers of the reproductive system in women, including both ovarian and breast cancer.

Whilst we do not have any explanations for the higher than average mortality rate in the George Elliot Hospital NHS Trust, we know that it is a relatively small hospital with only 352 beds, and admissions totalled 42,577 during 2005/6, according to Hospital Episode Statistics [ 3].

Brian Jarman, a professor at Imperial College London who co-founded the health statistics and research service Doctor Foster, told the Guardian he had warned the trust over higher than average mortality rates for septicaemia in early 2010.

The party claims four of the six health boards in Wales which have a major hospital have higher than average mortality rates.

Dr Dewhurst said problems in the health service had most recently been seen in NHS Lanarkshire - which was last year told a range of improvements must be made at three hospitals following a review into patient safety prompted by higher than average mortality rates.

The Healthy Communities Cancer Collaborative was launched in 2008 in response to public health data that showed Liverpool had the highest lung cancer mortality rate in Europe, as well as higher than national average mortality rates for bowel and breast cancer.

Mortality rates in the district were found to be lower than estimated by the DHS report for mortality among under-five children within the region and was not anticipated because the Dangme-West district is rural and mortality rates in rural districts tend to be higher than the reported regional average mortality rates in Ghana.

The SARS mortality statistics published by World Health Organization in 2003 showed that the overall average mortality rate was about 15%, but the mortality rate of young people with strong immunity was much higher than that of old people with weak immunity.

Published at the close of 2015, it revealed autistic people without a learning disability had a nine times higher than average premature mortality rate, with suicide a principal cause.

The hospital's maternity ward had a higher than average perinatal mortality rate despite catering for low-risk births, a previous review of the deaths and Djerriwarrh health services, which managed the hospital, found.

Current treatments retain mortality rates, which are higher than average cancer mortality rates for the adolescent age group.