Table 4 Top five causes of death from original and follow-up interviews in series of verbal autopsies in Burkina Faso (n = 91) and Indonesia (n = 116).
Burkina Faso | Indonesia | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
original interview | follow-up interview | original interview | follow-up interview | |||||
rank | cause of death | CSMF % | cause of death | CSMF % | cause of death | CSMF % | cause of death | CSMF % |
1 | malaria | 19.6 | Malaria | 30.0 | haemorrhage | 17.2 | pregnancy-related infection | 24.2 |
2 | pregnancy-related infection | 18.5 | pregnancy-related infection | 23.2 | pregnancy-related infection | 11.8 | haemorrhage | 11.5 |
3 | cardio-vascular disease | 8.4 | Haemorrhage | 9.4 | tuberculosis (pulmonary) | 11.8 | tuberculosis (pulmonary) | 10.6 |
4 | haemorrhage | 8.2 | tuberculosis (pulmonary) | 6.4 | malaria | 8.8 | malaria | 7.8 |
5 | anaemia | 6.8 | HIV/AIDS related death | 4.6 | pregnancy-induced hypertension | 8.3 | cardio-vascular disease | 5.5 |
total | 61.5 | 73.6 | 57.9 | 59.6 | ||||