Mortality patterns in a rural Kenyan community.
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1990Author
Mirza, N M
Macharia, W M
Wafula, E M
Agwanda, R
Onyango, F E
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Causes of death of 239 children below the age of 5 years in a rural community were determined using structured questionnaires. It was found that mortality was highest in infancy, accounting for 63% of all deaths with a trend of decreasing mortality with increasing age. The commonest cause of death was ARI (pneumonia and measles) accounting for 49% of the deaths, followed by diarrhoear illnesses (8.8%). Only half of the deaths (51.5%) occurred at some health facility, though 77% of all children had been taken to a health facility for treatment during the fatal illness.
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http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/16813http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2076684
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East Afr Med J. 1990 Nov;67(11):823-9Publisher
Department of Paediatrics, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi.
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- Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) [10377]