Cause-Specific Mortality Fraction (CSMF) of adult mortality in Butajira, South Central Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT: Cause- and context-specific mortality data are imperative to understand the extent of health problems in low-income settings, where national death registration and cause of death identification systems are at a rudimentary stage. Aiming to estimate cause-specific mortality fractions, adult (15+ years) deaths between January 2008 and April 2020 were extracted from the Butajira health and demographic surveillance system electronic database. The physician review and a computerized algorithm, InterVA (Interpreting Verbal Autopsy), methods were used to assign the likely causes of death from January 2008 to April 2017 (the first) and May 2017 to April 2020 (the second) phase of the surveillance period, respectively. Initially, adult mortality rates per 1000py across sex and age were summarized.

SUBMITTER: Aleme H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10021511 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature