Disease-specific mortality burdens in a rural Gambian population using verbal autopsy, 1998-2007.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate and evaluate the cause-of-death structure and disease-specific mortality rates in a rural area of The Gambia as determined using the InterVA-4 model.

Design

Deaths and person-years of observation were determined by age group for the population of the Farafenni Health and Demographic Surveillance area from January 1998 to December 2007. Causes of death were determined by verbal autopsy (VA) using the InterVA-4 model and ICD-10 disease classification. Assigned causes of death were classified into six broad groups: infectious and parasitic diseases; cancers; other non-communicable diseases; neonatal; maternal; and external causes. Poisson regression was used to estimate age and disease-specific mortality rates, and likelihood ratio tests were used to deter

SUBMITTER: Jasseh M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4220164 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature