Cause-of-death ascertainment for deaths that occur outside hospitals in Thailand: application of verbal autopsy methods

Table 8 Cause-specific mortality estimates (in%) by age for deaths outside hospitals in the study sample for males, Thailand, 2005

Cause of death	Age group				Total
	<15 yrs	15-49 yrs	50-74 yrs	>75 yrs
Cerebrovascular diseases		0.7	4.5	3.6	8.9
Transport accidents	0.5	5.0	1.2	0.1	6.8
HIV/AIDS	0.2	5.7	0.6	<0.1	6.4
Chronic lower respiratory diseases		0.3	2.4	3.2	6.0
Ischemic heart disease		0.6	3.5	1.7	5.9
Liver cancer		0.8	3.1	0.9	4.8
Diseases of the liver		1.4	2.1	1.1	4.5
Lung cancer		0.3	2.2	1.0	3.4
Other genitourinary diseases		0.2	1.4	1.6	3.2
Diabetes		0.2	1.9	0.9	3.0
Suicide		1.8	0.8	0.1	2.8
Pneumonia		0.4	0.7	1.2	2.3
Drowning	0.6	0.8	0.4	0.1	2.0
All other external causes		0.9	0.7	0.4	1.9
Other heart diseases		0.4	0.7	0.8	1.9
Other malignant neoplasms		0.3	1.0	0.4	1.6
Assault		1.1	0.4	<0.1	1.5
Other digestive disorders		0.2	0.6	0.7	1.4
Hypertensive diseases		0.1	0.6	0.7	1.4
All other specified causes	0.7	3.8	8.3	5.8	18.5
Ill defined conditions		1.3	2.8	7.7	11.8
Total deaths (%)	2.1	26.3	39.7	31.9	100
Total deaths	73	927	1398	1127	3523

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