Glossary

As defined by Article II of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development,

Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction:

“Chemical Weapons” means the following, together or separately: (a) Toxic chemicals

and their precursors, except where intended for purposes not prohibited under this

Convention, as long as the types and quantities are consistent with such purposes; (b)

Munitions and devices, specifically designed to cause death or other harm through the

Situations of high-mortality risk, where there is the "likelihood of 300% or plus

increases in morbidity and mortality" (S. Hansh, 2001).

The mortality rate due to a specific disease (e.g. cholera) or phenomenon (e.g.

violence). (1)

(1) Checchi and Roberts, Interpreting and using mortality data in humanitarian

emergencies, ODI/HPN paper 52, 2005.

The proportion of persons with a particular condition (e.g. patients) who die from that

condition. The denominator is the number of persons with the condition; the numerator

is the number of cause-specific deaths among those persons. Traditionally it is

expressed as the number of people duying from a specific disease from 100 diagnosed

with this disease for a certain period.