Background: Cancer is the third leading cause of death in Kenya. Yet, little is known about prognostic awareness and preferences for prognostic information.
Aim: To assess the prevalence of prognostic awareness and preference for prognostic information among advanced cancer patients in Kenya.
Setting: Ou...
Le cancer du sein constitue un véritable problème de santé publique dans le monde. L’une des principales causes de décès dû à cette affection est la métastase, laquelle est peu étudiée dans notre contexte. Ainsi, les objectifs de ce travail étaient d’estimer la fréquence des cancers du se...
Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of death in children under five and, a major cause of infant mortality in all regions of the world, most deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The main agent with the highest prevalence in severe pneumonia is, as the name suggests the bacterium Streptoc...
Background The demand of ICU care for obstetric patients is rising in low-income settings, where there is low ICU-bed capacity. Introduction of obstetric High-dependency unit (HDU) has been described as an effective strategy to bridge this gap in resource-restricted settings.
Objective: To describe the...
In sub-Saharan Africa, recent data about causes of adult death and care-seeking during illnesses are limited. This analysis examines adult deaths using verbal and social autopsy data from a nationally and provincially representative sample registration system in Mozambique. Causes of death among those 18...
Fiksel, Jacob;
Gilbert, Brian;
Wilson, Emily;
Valter, Henry;
Kante, Almamy;
Akum, Aveika;
Blau, Dianna;
Bassat, Quique;
Macicame, Ivalda;
Samo Gudo, Eduardo;
Black, Robert;
Zeger, Scott;
Amouzou, Agbessi;
Datta, Abhirup.
Verbal autopsies (VAs) are extensively used to determine cause of death (COD) in many low- and middle-income countries. However, COD determination from VA can be inaccurate. Computer coded verbal autopsy (CCVA) algorithms used for this task are imperfect and misclassify COD for a large proportion of deat...
Macicame, Ivalda;
Kante, Almamy M;
Wilson, Emily;
Gilbert, Brian;
Koffi, Alain;
Nhachungue, Sheila;
Monjane, Celso;
Duce, Pedro;
Adriano, Antonio;
Chicumbe, Sergio;
Kalter, Henry D;
Datta, Abhirup;
Zeger, Scott;
Black, Robert E;
Gudo, Eduardo Samo;
Amouzou, Agbessi.
Sub-Saharan Africa lacks timely, reliable, and accurate national data on mortality and causes of death (CODs). In 2018 Mozambique launched a sample registration system (Countrywide Mortality Surveillance for Action [COMSA]-Mozambique), which collects continuous birth, death, and COD data from 700 randoml...
Gilbert, Brian;
Fiksel, Jacob;
Wilson, Emily;
Kalter, Henry;
Kante, Almamy;
Akum, Aveika;
Blau, Dianna;
Bassat, Quique;
Macicame, Ivalda;
Gudo, Eduardo Samo;
Black, Robert;
Zeger, Scott;
Amouzou, Agbessi;
Datta, Abhirup.
The Countrywide Mortality Surveillance for Action platform is collecting verbal autopsy (VA) records from a nationally representative sample in Mozambique. These records are used to estimate the national and subnational cause-specific mortality fractions (CSMFs) for children (1-59 months) and neonates (1...
Objective: This study examined factors identified during early neonatal death audits contributing to preventable newborn deaths at the Upper East Regional Hospital.
Method: Data for this study was collected retrospectively from perinatal death audit forms using three data collectors.
Data collection last...
Contexte et objectifs. Les données sur la tendance de la mortalité maternelle sont fragmentaires en Afrique Subsaharienne. La présente étude avait pour objectif de faire une analyse triennale de l’évolution du taux de mortalité maternelle et identifier les causes de décès. Méthodes : Il s’ag...
