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# mortality rates

All time
Inequalities in mortality rates across socio-economic and ethnic groups remain in Ireland
Irish people are more fertile than almost all of our European peers
Death rates for HIV-positive adults have halved
Government reminded local authorities of their obligation to report infant deaths in mother and baby homes in 1946
No difference in mortality rate between boys and girls relating to last vaccine offered
21 heart attack patients in every 100 die at one Irish hospital
Call for inquiry into high mortality rates at mother and baby homes
US suicide rates have risen sharply since economic crisis