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Maternal Education
A measure of a mother's education level. In Chartier et al. (2012), this indicator was developed to measure the prevalence rate of women with newborns who had not completed high school. |
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Maternal Hypertension
A composite variable created that includes primary hypertension as well as hypertensive disorders in pregnancy occurring in the one year prior to birth. See the Hypertension - Measuring Prevalence concept for m... |
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Maternal Languages
See Mother Tongue glossary term. |
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Maternal Length of Stay
The average total number of days of care for an inpatient hospitalization associated with a live or stillborn birth (including labour, delivery, and postpartum) per maternal birth record; calculated by subtracting the discharge date from the admission dat... |
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Maternal Psychological Distress
Any form of diagnosed psychological distress (e.g., anxiety and/or depression) occurring in the two year period prior to giving birth. This definition requires at least three medical claims with the ICD-9-CM diagnosis code = 300 in two years prior to bir... |
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Maternal Substance Abuse
A composite variable from the Families First Screening Form that identifies if the mother self-reported either smoking, alcohol consumption or illicit drug use during pregnancy. See the Substance Use by Mothe... |
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Mathematics Achievement Index
The Mathematics Achievement Index is designed to identify and classify student achievement in grade 12 mathematics by dichotomizing the group: those who took one or more "difficult" math classes, and those that did not. |
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Maximum Allowable Cost Policy
A drug reimbursement policy that publishes prices defining the maximum contribution of a drug plan to the purchase of a drug. |
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Maximum Likelihood Method
A method used for estimating the parameters of a mathematical model. Given the set of observed data and a probability distribution, it aims at obtaining the most "likely" values of the parameters that maximizes the likelihood function (or the likelihood t... |
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MB Health
acronym for Manitoba Health. |
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MCC
acronym for Major Clinical Categories (MCC) |
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MCCSP
acronym for Manitoba Cervical Cancer Screening Program (MCCSP) |
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MCHP
acronym for Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) |
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MCHP Research Registry
The MCHP Research Registry is a longitudinal population-based research registry that is derived from data in the Manitoba Health Insurance Registry and other data files in the MCHP Data Repository. "Snapshot files" of the Manitoba Health Insurance R... |
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MCTRF
acronym for Manitoba Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation (MCTRF) |
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MCWLP
acronym for Manitoba Cataract Surgery Waiting List Program (MCWLP) |
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MDS
acronym for Minimum Data Set (MDS) |
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Meals on Wheels
A non-profit meal organization dedicated to the home delivery of nutritious meals to those people who are in need of nutritional assistance. |
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Measles
A highly contagious and acutely infectious viral disease. Symptoms include fever, cough, head cold, rash, conjunctivitis (inflammation or infection of the membrane lining the eyelids), and Koplik spots (white spots on the inner lining of the mouth). |
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Measures of Need for Health Care
May include direct (detailed measures of morbidity in the population) and indirect (mortality and social and economic circumstances of the population) measures of need for medical / health care. |
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