Deaths

Deaths

Deaths: Leading Causes for 2011-2012

Introduction: This report presents 2011-2012 data on leading causes of death in the Islamic Republic of Iran by Province. Methods: Data in this report are based on information from all death certificates filed in the 31 provinces in 2011-2012 . Causes of death classified by the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD–10) are ranked a...

Towards elimination of maternal deaths: maternal deaths surveillance and response

Current methods for estimating maternal mortality lack precision, and are not suitable for monitoring progress in the short run. In addition, national maternal mortality ratios (MMRs) alone do not provide useful information on where the greatest burden of mortality is located, who is concerned, what are the causes, and more importantly what sub-national variations occur. This paper discusses a ...

The age separating early deaths from late deaths

Averting deaths may either increase or reduce life disparity, as measured by e†. The sign of the effect depends on the age at which the deaths are averted. We show that there may, depending on the entropy of the life table, be an age such that averting deaths before that age reduces disparity, but averting deaths after that age increases disparity. We say that this age separates “early” from “l...

Unexpected postneonatal deaths (cot deaths) due to recognizable disease.

At least a quarter of the babies dying as unexpected home 'cot deaths' do so from recognizable diseases. A study of the background of such children, compared with age and admission controls, suggests that the disease symptomatology in this group of children differs in no way from children who are successfully treated. The factors leading to the death of these children appear to lie in the gener...