TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - The causes of death of the women in age of procreation at the hospitals of Sfax
JO  - Tunisie médicale, La
A1  - Djedidi Trabelsi, Jihen
A1  - Yaich Kammoun, Sourour
A1  - Abderraouf Karray, Mohamed
A1  - Feki, Habib
A1  - Kassis, Mondher
A1  - Damak, Jamel
SP  - 745
EP  - 751
VL  - 89
IS  - 10
N2  - Aim: To study the principal causes of death of the women dead at an âge ranging between 15 and 49 years old and having been hospitalized in a public medical structures of the gouvernorat of Sfax. Methods: Retrospective study concerning all the included deaths between 1999 and 2007. Results: The study was related to 728 deaths, which correspond to an average of 80.88 deaths FAR per year. Public highway accidents were the major cause of death (83 cases, 11.4 % of the causes of death) followed by the burns (37 cases, 5%) and the cerebral vascular accidents (31 cases, 4.25%). The classification of the causes of death according to groups of pathologies showed the prevalence of the cardio- vascular diseases (18.7%), the external causes of death (18.2%), cancers (11.6%) and the causes related to the pregnancy and the childbirth (8.5%). The maternal death rate was of 56.91 per 100000. The cause of maternal death was directly related to the pregnancy in 67.74 % of the cases. The immediate causes were prevailed by the hemorrhagic causes (27.5%). The death was avoidable in 48.83 % of the cases and the failures were related to the woman in 60% of the cases. Conclusion: The prevention of new practices of life (female nicotinism, obesity, bad food habits, lack of vigilance in traffic) and a better practice of the primary and secondary prevention in medicine could decrease the premature death rates in Tunisia.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0041-4131
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
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