Adult mortality before and during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in nine communities of Yemen: a key informant study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Widespread armed conflict has affected Yemen since 2014. To date, the mortality toll of seven years of crisis, and any excess due to the COVID-19 pandemic, are not well quantified. We attempted to estimate population mortality during the pre-pandemic and pandemic periods in nine purposively selected urban and rural communities of southern and central Yemen (Aden and Ta'iz governorates), totalling > 100,000 people.

Methods

Within each study site, we collected lists of decedents between January 2014-March 2021 by interviewing different categories of key community informants, including community leaders, imams, healthcare workers, senior citizens and others. After linking records across lists based on key variables, we applied two-, three- or four-list capture-reca

SUBMITTER: Alhaffar M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9743127 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature