Levels and trends in mortality and causes of death among women of reproductive age in Bangladesh: Findings from three national surveys.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Information on the mortality rate and proportional cause-specific mortality is essential for identifying diseases of public health importance, design programmes, and formulating policies, but such data on women of reproductive age in Bangladesh is limited.

Methods

We analysed secondary data from the 2001, 2010, and 2016 rounds of the nationally representative Bangladesh Maternal Mortality and Health Care Survey (BMMS) to estimate mortality rates and causes of death among women aged 15-49 years. We collected information on causes of death three years prior to each survey using a country-adapted version of the World Health Organization (WHO) verbal autopsy (VA) questionnaire. Trained physicians independently reviewed the VA questionnaire and assigned a cause of deat

SUBMITTER: Nahar Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10449030 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature