TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Mortality from external causes in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance System Sites
JO  - Global health action
A1  - Streatfield, P. Kim
A1  - Khan, Wasif A.
A1  - Bhuiya, Abbas
A1  - Hanifi, Syed M. A.
A1  - Alam, Nurul
A1  - Diboulo, Eric
A1  - Niamba, Louis
A1  - Sié, Ali
A1  - Lankoande, Bruno
A1  - Millogo, Roch
A1  - Soura, Abdramane B.
A1  - Bonfoh, Bassirou
A1  - Kone, Siaka
A1  - Ngoran, Eliezer K.
A1  - Utzinger, Juerg
A1  - Ashebir, Yemane
A1  - Melaku, Yohannes A.
A1  - Weldearegawi, Berhe
A1  - Gomez, Pierre
A1  - Jasseh, Momodou
A1  - Azongo, Daniel
A1  - Oduro, Abraham
A1  - Wak, George
A1  - Wontuo, Peter
A1  - Attaa-Pomaa, Mary
A1  - Gyapong, Margaret
A1  - Manyeh, Alfred K.
A1  - Kant, Shashi
A1  - Misra, Puneet
A1  - Rai, Sanjay K.
A1  - Juvekar, Sanjay
A1  - Patil, Rutuja
A1  - Wahab, Abdul
A1  - Wilopo, Siswanto
A1  - Bauni, Evasius
A1  - Mochamah, George
A1  - Ndila, Carolyne
A1  - Williams, Thomas N.
A1  - Khaggayi, Christine
A1  - Nyaguara, Amek
A1  - Obor, David
A1  - Odhiambo, Frank O.
A1  - Ezeh, Alex
A1  - Oti, Samuel
A1  - Wamukoya, Marylene
A1  - Chihana, Menard
A1  - Crampin, Amelia
A1  - Collinson, Mark A.
A1  - Kabudula, Chodziwadziwa W.
A1  - Wagner, Ryan
A1  - Herbst, Kobus
A1  - Mossong, Joël
A1  - Emina, Jacques B. O.
A1  - Sankoh, Osman A.
A1  - Byass, Peter
SP  - e25366
EP  - e25366
VL  - 7
IS  - 
N2  - BACKGROUND: Mortality from external causes, of all kinds, is an important component of overall mortality on a global basis. However, these deaths, like others in Africa and Asia, are often not counted or documented on an individual basis. Overviews of the state of external cause mortality in Africa and Asia are therefore based on uncertain information. The INDEPTH Network maintains longitudinal surveillance, including cause of death, at population sites across Africa and Asia, which offers important opportunities to document external cause mortality at the population level across a range of settings. <br><br>OBJECTIVE: To describe patterns of mortality from external causes at INDEPTH Network sites across Africa and Asia, according to the WHO 2012 verbal autopsy (VA) cause categories. <br><br>DESIGN: All deaths at INDEPTH sites are routinely registered and followed up with VA interviews. For this study, VA archives were transformed into the WHO 2012 VA standard format and processed using the InterVA-4 model to assign cause of death. Routine surveillance data also provide person-time denominators for mortality rates. <br><br>RESULTS: A total of 5,884 deaths due to external causes were documented over 11,828,253 person-years. Approximately one-quarter of those deaths were to children younger than 15 years. Causes of death were dominated by childhood drowning in Bangladesh, and by transport-related deaths and intentional injuries elsewhere. Detailed mortality rates are presented by cause of death, age group, and sex. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: The patterns of external cause mortality found here generally corresponded with expectations and other sources of information, but they fill some important gaps in population-based mortality data. They provide an important source of information to inform potentially preventive intervention designs.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1654-9716
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -