The phrase "illness rate" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the frequency or occurrence of sickness or disease within a given population or group. Example: The university conducted a study on the illness rate among students and found that the common cold was the most prevalent sickness, followed by seasonal allergies and stomach flu.
By contrast, acute diarrhea was the greatest problem in traditional travelers, with an illness rate of 364 per 1,000 ill returned travelers compared with 173/1,000 in VFR travelers.
For example, if each school were closed for 7 days when the proportion of ill children exceeded 10%, then the overall illness rate was 0.288 (95% CI 0.278 0.297).
Working on an ambulance train was hard work and there was a high illness rate among the personnel.
Yet the tightest labor market in a generation has coincided with the lowest work-related injury and illness rate since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking it.
The turbocharged red line has overshot the green, blue and purple lines that represent the flu-like illness rate from the three previous years, beginning in 2009.
In a study of working adults, about 8.5percentt of FluMist recipients got a fever from upper respiratory illness compared with 10.8percentt of those receiving a placebo -- a reduction in illness rate of 22percentt.
The refining industry has a better injury and illness rate than private industry as a whole.
These values correspond with an illness rate of eight illnesses per 1,000 swimmers for gastrointestinal illnesses and fevers.
The injury and illness rate in 1987 for all industries, covering both public and private sectors in California, was 9.2 incidents per 100 full-time workers, Stephens said.
When hand sanitizers were placed in dorms at the University of Colorado, a study on infection control found that overall illness rate dropped by 20percentt and missed school days by 43percentt.
The criteria are based on the best available scientific methods for creating national standards". "A different illness rate that has recently been promoted by the Natural Resources Defense Council is associated with a water testing method that EPA does not feel is appropriate for developing national recreation criteria recommendations at this time.
