Table 3 Overall cause-specific mortality fractions and ranked causes, together with pregnancy status assessments, from verbal autopsies in Burkina Faso (n = 91) and Indonesia (n = 116), in original and follow-up interviews
Burkina Faso | Indonesia | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
original interview | follow-up interview | original interview | follow-up interview | |||||
cause of death | % | rank | % | rank | % | rank | % | rank |
Abortion related death | 3.6 | 10 | 1.8 | 11 | 1.3 | 17 | 1.9 | 15 |
Anaemia | 6.8 | 5 | 3.6 | 7 | 5.4 | 7 | 4.7 | 8 |
Cancer | 2.2 | 13 | 3.6 | 7 | 2.9 | 11 | 5.2 | 7 |
Cardiovascular disease | 8.4 | 3 | 3.0 | 9 | 7.0 | 6 | 5.5 | 5 |
Diabetes | 4.1 | 9 | 4.1 | 5 | 4.5 | 9 | 5.3 | 6 |
Ectopic pregnancy | 0.3 | 19 | 1.4 | 14 | 1.8 | 15 | 2.9 | 13 |
HIV/AIDS related death | 5.4 | 7 | 4.6 | 5 | 0.3 | 20 | 1.8 | 16 |
Haemorrhage | 8.2 | 4 | 9.4 | 3 | 17.2 | 1 | 11.5 | 2 |
Indeterminate | 1.2 | 17 | 0 | 18 | 2.8 | 12 | 0.9 | 18 |
Kidney disease | 2.4 | 12 | 1.5 | 13 | 3.3 | 10 | 3.0 | 12 |
Liver disease | 1.6 | 15 | 2.1 | 10 | 5.2 | 8 | 3.3 | 11 |
Malaria | 19.6 | 1 | 30.0 | 1 | 8.8 | 4 | 7.8 | 4 |
Non-pregnancy related infection | 0 | 20 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 21 | 0.9 | 18 |
Obstructed labour | 2.6 | 11 | 1.7 | 12 | 2.6 | 13 | 2.0 | 14 |
Other maternal cause | 1.6 | 16 | 0 | 18 | 2.1 | 14 | 3.6 | 10 |
Pregnancy-induced hypertension | 5.8 | 6 | 1.2 | 15 | 8.3 | 5 | 3.7 | 9 |
Pregnancy-related infection | 18.5 | 2 | 23.2 | 2 | 11.8 | 2 | 24.2 | 1 |
Respiratory disease | 0 | 20 | 1.2 | 17 | 0.3 | 19 | 0 | 21 |
Ruptured uterus | 2.2 | 14 | 0 | 18 | 1.6 | 16 | 1.0 | 17 |
Suicide | 0.6 | 18 | 1.2 | 15 | 1.0 | 18 | 0.4 | 20 |
Tuberculosis (pulmonary) | 5.0 | 8 | 6.4 | 4 | 11.8 | 3 | 10.6 | 3 |
Pregnancy status | ||||||||
not pregnant within 6 wks of death | 6.8 | 3 | 21.5 | 2 | 8.2 | 3 | 7.8 | 3 |
pregnant within 6 wks of death | 70.9 | 1 | 67.0 | 1 | 51.4 | 1 | 51.6 | 1 |
pregnant at death | 22.3 | 2 | 11.5 | 3 | 40.4 | 2 | 40.6 | 2 |