[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.
Fondation médicale de l'Université de Louvain Katana, Zaïre.
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Delacollette
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Van der Stuyft
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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.