 Mortality
"Mortality" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
All deaths reported in a given population.
| Descriptor ID |
D009026
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.318.308.985.550 N01.224.935.698 N06.850.505.400.975.550 N06.850.520.308.985.550
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| Concept/Terms |
Case Fatality Rate- Case Fatality Rate
- Case Fatality Rates
- Rate, Case Fatality
- Rates, Case Fatality
Mortality, Excess- Mortality, Excess
- Excess Mortalities
- Mortalities, Excess
- Excess Mortality
Decline, Mortality- Decline, Mortality
- Declines, Mortality
- Mortality Declines
- Mortality Decline
Mortality Determinants- Mortality Determinants
- Determinant, Mortality
- Mortality Determinant
- Determinants, Mortality
Mortality, Differential- Mortality, Differential
- Differential Mortalities
- Mortalities, Differential
- Differential Mortality
Age-Specific Death Rate- Age-Specific Death Rate
- Age-Specific Death Rates
- Death Rate, Age-Specific
- Death Rates, Age-Specific
- Rate, Age-Specific Death
- Rates, Age-Specific Death
- Age Specific Death Rate
Death Rate- Death Rate
- Death Rates
- Rate, Death
- Rates, Death
- Mortality Rate
- Mortality Rates
- Rate, Mortality
- Rates, Mortality
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Mortality" by people in this website by year, and whether "Mortality" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1997 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1998 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2000 | 5 | 1 | 6 | | 2001 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2002 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2003 | 3 | 4 | 7 | | 2004 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2005 | 8 | 4 | 12 | | 2006 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2007 | 3 | 3 | 6 | | 2008 | 7 | 5 | 12 | | 2009 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2010 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2011 | 5 | 5 | 10 | | 2012 | 3 | 3 | 6 | | 2013 | 3 | 6 | 9 | | 2014 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 2015 | 4 | 7 | 11 | | 2016 | 10 | 10 | 20 | | 2017 | 7 | 13 | 20 | | 2018 | 9 | 16 | 25 | | 2019 | 8 | 14 | 22 | | 2020 | 5 | 16 | 21 | | 2021 | 4 | 13 | 17 | | 2022 | 0 | 5 | 5 | | 2023 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2024 | 6 | 7 | 13 | | 2025 | 6 | 0 | 6 | | 2026 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Mortality" by people in Profiles.
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DeWitte SN, Jones EE, Reardon EJ, Lewis AJ. Gender, Sex, and Health in Urban and Rural Late 19th-Century New York State. Am J Biol Anthropol. 2026 May; 190(1):e70279.
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Denney JT, Boardman JD, Pendergast PM. Hearing impairment and adult mortality: the role of co-impairments in understanding risk. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2026 Apr 07; 81(5).
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Goston C, Benson T, Coats H. Quality improvement project: Implementing a mortality screening tool post hospital discharge to guide goals of care conversations and improve hospice admissions. Geriatr Nurs. 2026 Jun; 70:104020.
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McNellan CR, Prindle J, Eastman AL, Putnam-Hornstein E. Mortality in a California cohort of adolescents and young adults exiting foster care. Am J Epidemiol. 2026 03 05; 195(3):783-790.
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Deardorff WJ, Gan S, Jing B, Lam K, Boscardin WJ, Smith AK, Lee SJ. An Updated Mortality and Community Discharge Prognostic Model for Older Adults Admitted to Skilled Nursing Facilities for Post-Acute Care. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2026 04; 27(4):106103.
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Huber V, Breitner-Busch S, Feldbusch H, Frieler K, He C, Matthies-Wiesler F, Mengel M, Zhang S, Peters A, Schneider A. Improvements in life expectancy mask rising trends in heat-related excess mortality attributable to climate change. Nat Commun. 2025 Nov 26; 16(1):11632.
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Cortes TR, Pescarini JM, Ranzani OT, Paixão ES, Neves DJD, Rebouças P, Ribeiro-Silva RC, Ferreira AJF, Galvão LAC, Brickley EB, Smeeth L, Jacobson LV, Silveira IH, Barreto ML. Ambient temperature and non-accidental mortality: A nationwide space-time-stratified case-crossover study within the 100 million Brazilian Cohort. Environ Int. 2025 Nov; 205:109892.
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Zhou L, Xiong Y, Sera F, Vicedo-Cabrera AM, Abrutzky R, Guo Y, Tong S, de Sousa Zanotti Stagliorio Coelho M, Nascimento Saldiva PH, Lavigne E, Correa PM, Ortega NV, Osorio S, Roye D, Kyselý J, Orru H, Maasikmets M, Jaakkola JJK, Ryti N, Pascal M, Huber V, Breitner-Busch S, Schneider A, Katsouyanni K, Samoli E, Entezari A, Mayvaneh F, Goodman P, Zeka A, Raz R, Scortichini M, Stafoggia M, Honda Y, Hashizume M, Ng CFS, Alahmad B, Diaz MH, Félix Arellano EE, Overcenco A, Klompmaker J, Rao S, Carrasco G, Seposo X, Chua PLC, Pereira da Silva SDN, Madureira J, Holobaca IH, Scovronick N, Garland RM, Kim H, Lee W, Tobias A, Íñiguez C, Forsberg B, Ragettli MS, Guo YL, Pan SC, Li S, Masselot P, Colistro V, Bell M, Zanobetti A, Schwartz J, Dang TN, Van Dung D, Gasparrini A, Huang Y, Kan H. Associations of ambient exposure to benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene with daily mortality: a multicountry time-series study in 757 global locations. Lancet Planet Health. 2025 Sep; 9(9):101306.
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Turanovic JJ, Rodriguez N, Kuper JL. Factors Associated With All-Cause Mortality in a Western State Prison System, 1999-2020. Am J Prev Med. 2026 Jan; 70(1):108063.
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DeWitte SN, Jones EE, Livingston C. Health and Mortality in the 19th-Century Rural United States: The Second Epidemiological Transition in Madison County, New York. Am J Hum Biol. 2025 03; 37(3):e70017.
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