Mortality and causes of death in Jordan 1995-96 : assessment by verbal autopsy

Mortality indicators and causes of death in Jordan were assessed by verbal autopsy. A random sample of 100 clusters of ca. 300 households each were monitored for one year by notification assistants selected from the study area itself. Registered deaths were reported to research assistants who visite...

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Published inBulletin of the World Health Organization Vol. 77; no. 8; pp. 641 - 650
Main Authors KHOURY, S. A, MASSAD, D, FARDOUS, T
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Genève Organisation mondiale de la santé 01.01.1999
World Health Organization
Subjects
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Autopsies
Autopsy
Biological and medical sciences
Cause of Death
Child
Child, Preschool
Circulatory system
Diabetes
Disease
Epidemiology
Female
General aspects
Geography
Heart attacks
Hospitals
Humans
Hypertension
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Investigations
Jordan
Male
Medical sciences
Methodology
Middle Aged
Mortality
Population
Pregnancy
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Registration
Tropical medicine
Vital statistics
Jordan
Asia
Human
Questionnaire
Methodology
Estimation
Mortality
Rate
Oral communication
Epidemiology
Autopsy
Cause
Death
Recording
Public health
Arab Countries
Causes Of Death
Morbidity
Diseases
Asia
Western Asia
Population
Research Report
Developing Countries
Jordan
Demographic Factors
Population Dynamics
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Summary:Mortality indicators and causes of death in Jordan were assessed by verbal autopsy. A random sample of 100 clusters of ca. 300 households each were monitored for one year by notification assistants selected from the study area itself. Registered deaths were reported to research assistants who visited the family to complete the verbal autopsy form, which was structured and contained about 100 questions. Causes of death were determined by two physicians according to preset algorithms. A total of 965 deaths were reported among 198,989 persons, giving a crude death rate of 5 per 1000 population per year. The three leading causes of death were diseases of the circulatory system, malignancies and accidents. In the absence of a health information system, verbal autopsy as implemented in Jordan can serve as a reliable substitute.
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ISSN:0042-9686
1564-0604