Causes of death among women aged 17-49 years between 2007 and 2010 in Maputo, Mozambique.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe causes of death among young women and estimate the role of HIV/AIDS as a cause in Maputo City, based on the civil death register.

Methods

Death data of 17-49 year-old women were abstracted from January 2007-March 2010 from the civil death register in Maputo City, registering overall about 15 000 deaths per-year. Causes of death in the register were either based on physicians' diagnoses on death certificates or determined by asking questions to deceased relatives. Causes of death were written in Portuguese; we translated them into English and classified them into 106 codes using ICD-9; these codes were then categorized into 10 groups. Estimated populations from the 2007 census were used to calculate annual mortality rates. An earlier study was used to c

SUBMITTER: Parkkali S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5735779 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature