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Morbidity and mortality patterns among the under 5 year old children admitted to district hospitals in the Eastern Cape, 2000 - 2004
Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/28478 Morbidity and mortality patterns among the under 5 year old children admitted to district hospitals in the Eastern Cape, 2000 - 2004 Matjila, Maila J. upetd@up.ac.za Dlamini, Thomas Mortality Pre-transitional causes Morbidity UCTD Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2010. Introduction.: The evaluation and improvement of the quality of health care services begins with the knowledge about the trends and causes of diseases. Purpose: To describe the morbidity and mortality patterns for the under-5 year old children who were admitted in 11 district hospitals in Eastern Cape Province from 2000 to 2004. Methods: Descriptive study where a multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 11 district hospitals. There were 25,122 causes of paediatric ward admissions (2000 to 2004) among under-5 children from ward register were reviewed and ICD-10 coded. Findings: Pre-transitional causes were the leading causes of morbidity (68.4%) and mortality (74.2%) especially diarrhoeal lower respiratory tract infections and protein-energy malnutrition. There was particularly among male high infant morbidity and mortality rates observed from 2000 to 2004. Non-communicable diseases (8% morbidity and 4.2% mortality) and injuries (10% morbidity and 4.4% mortality) appeared to be of less public health concern among the under-5 children. Majority of under-5 mortality (43.4%) occurred within 24 hours of admissions (23.7% died on arrival). Influential variables for morbidity and mortality were region (Eastern), age (infants), year admitted and broad classification of the diseases (group I causes). There was a constant increase in morbidity and mortality which was observed during studied period. Conclusion: Pre-transitional causes (especially diarrhoeal, lower respiratory tract infections and protein energy malnutrition) were of public health concern among the under-5 children and their magnitude has increased over the years studied. Copyright Clinical Epidemiology unrestricted 2013-09-07T13:36:16Z 2010-10-06 2013-09-07T13:36:16Z 2010-04-16 2010-10-06 2010-10-06 Dissertation Dlamini, T 2010, Morbidity and mortality patterns among the under 5 year old children admitted to district hospitals in the Eastern Cape, 2000 - 2004, MSc dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28478 > E10/251/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28478 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10062010-192322/ © 2010, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Mortality Pre-transitional causes Morbidity UCTD Morbidity and mortality patterns among the under 5 year old children admitted to district hospitals in the Eastern Cape, 2000 - 2004 |
| title | Morbidity and mortality patterns among the under 5 year old children admitted to district hospitals in the Eastern Cape, 2000 - 2004 |
| title_full | Morbidity and mortality patterns among the under 5 year old children admitted to district hospitals in the Eastern Cape, 2000 - 2004 |
| title_fullStr | Morbidity and mortality patterns among the under 5 year old children admitted to district hospitals in the Eastern Cape, 2000 - 2004 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Morbidity and mortality patterns among the under 5 year old children admitted to district hospitals in the Eastern Cape, 2000 - 2004 |
| title_short | Morbidity and mortality patterns among the under 5 year old children admitted to district hospitals in the Eastern Cape, 2000 - 2004 |
| title_sort | morbidity and mortality patterns among the under 5 year old children admitted to district hospitals in the eastern cape 2000 2004 |
| topic | Mortality Pre-transitional causes Morbidity UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/28478 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10062010-192322/ |