Question

Give definitions for the following four words.

Morbidity:

Mortality:

Micro-costs:

Gross costs:

Answer 1

Answer: Morbidity: Morbidity means the state of being unhealthy or the population suffering from any kind of disease. For example, infants are more prone to respiratory tract disease.

Mortality: Mortality can be defined as the death rate which occurs in the population. The end of the life span of a person is known as mortality and the number of deaths represents mortality rate.

Micro- costs : Micro cost is the estimated cost and the method used is known as micro costing. It is a cost estimation process or method which precise the estimation for health interventions of economic cost.

Gross- costs: It is the total acquisition cost i.e. total of the all the expenses and cost. It includes entire cost of the process. For example, buying an equipment, the gross cost will be all the expenses such as purchase rate, transportation charges, service tax, etc.