Morbimortality is a medical concept that refers to index of people killed as a result of a specific disease within a given population group.
The formation of the concept of morbidity and mortality consists of relationship between morbidity and mortality, with the first referring to the number of individuals with a certain disease in relation to the total population analyzed. Mortality, on the other hand, is the statistic about the people killed in a specific group.
Thus, morbidity and mortality observes the number of individuals who died as a result of an illness, in relation to the number of inhabitants of a given place and period of time.
For example, when analyzing the causes of death of 100 individuals who belong to a certain location, if 80 of these deaths has been due to dengue, then it can be concluded that the morbidity and mortality rate of dengue is 80% in this environment.
See also:meaning of morbidity.
infant morbidity and mortality
In these cases, normally, the diseases that affect children and newborns are of an infectious and parasitic nature.
Brazil, however, over the years and thanks to its health campaigns, managed to significantly reduce the rate of child morbidity and mortality in the country.
See also:meaning of the Mortality Rate.