title: Causes of death in a rural hospital in 1983.
abstract: All 749 deaths recorded by a rural hospital during 1983 were listed in five age groups according to the 9th revision of the International Classification of Diseases. The largest number of deaths were in adults aged 50 years and over and in children aged under 2 years, and the most frequent causes of death were malnutrition, hypertension, prematurity, heart failure and gastro-enteritis.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000401:mortality; D006780:Hospitals, Rural; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008875:Middle Aged; D009026:Mortality; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000401:mortality; D012424:Rural Population; D013019:South Africa; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000401:mortality