[Study of general mortality and of mortality related to malaria in the mountains of Kivu, Zaire].
A longitudinal study in the "health region" of Katana (Kivu, Zaïre) has permitted to determine age and disease specific mortality rates. The infant mortality rate is 172 per 1000/year, the child mortality rate 45 p.1000/year and the crude rate 24 p.1000/year. Two thirds of this mortality are related to infectious and parasitic diseases: measles, diarrhoea, respiratory diseases and malaria. In the mountainous Katana region (4500 feet), malaria is responsible for 12%, of the decrease and the specific mortality rates are 3 p.1000/year in the general population and 18 and 6 p.1000/year in, respectively, the 0 to 11 month and 1 to 4 year age groups. We discuss the potential of PHC to improve, in the framework of an integrated development approach, this unfavorable health situation.
Delacollette
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Fondation médicale de l'Université de Louvain Katana, Zaïre.
Van der Stuyft
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Molima
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Delacollette-Lebrun
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Wery
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000401:mortality; D015023:Democratic Republic of the Congo; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008288:Malaria / Q000401:mortality*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009026:Mortality; D011320:Primary Health Care
Etude de la mortalité globale et de la mortalité liée au paludisme dans le Kivu montagneux, Zaïre.