Mortality in Tonga over three triennia, 2010-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tonga is a South Pacific Island country with a population of 100,651 (2016 Census). This study examines Tongan infant mortality rates (IMR), under-five mortality rates (U5MR), adult mortality and life expectancy (LE) at birth from 2010 to 2018 using a recent collation of empirical mortality data over the past decade for comparison with other previously published mortality estimates.

Methods

Routinely collected mortality data for 2010-2018 from the Ministry of Health, national (Vaiola) hospital, community nursing reports, and the Civil Registry, were consolidated by deterministic and probabilistic linkage of individual death records. Completeness of empirical mortality reporting was assessed by capture-recapture analysis. The reconciled data were aggregated into tr

SUBMITTER: Figueroa C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7789386 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature