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Table 5 All-cause and malaria mortality rates from Burkina Faso for children under five based on DSS

From: Comparison of all-cause and malaria-specific mortality from two West African countries with different malaria transmission patterns

    

All-cause Mortality per 1,000 PY 2

  

Study area

N1

Study type

Year(s) of study

IMR

CMR

U5MR

Malaria mortality rate <5

Reference

Kongondjan area

365

Cohort

1982–86

  

36.2

 

[72]

Pissila and Yako area

9085

Cohort

1985–96

90

 

49.4

 

[73]

Ouagadougou

6860

Hospital based

1993–94

  

27.7

13.8

[74]

Oubritenga province.

27577

Cohort

1993–94

102.0

36.4

44.3

 

[24,26]

   

1994–96

101.5

30.5

39.3

  
   

1996–98

50.3

19.7

23.6

  
   

1998–00

56.7

26.1

29.9

  

Nouna3

4720

Cohort

1993

  

32.5

 

[75]

 

4786

 

1994

  

41.6

  
 

4899

 

1995

  

35.7

  
 

4840

 

1996

  

43.1

  
 

4895

 

1997

  

30.5

  
 

5323

 

1998

  

30.9

  

Nouna

353

Cohort

1999

  

68.0

28.3

[8]

Nouna3

111554

Cohort

1999–03

60.5

23.6

31.9

13.3

[76]

  1. 1 Number of children below five years
  2. 2 IMR, CMR and U5MR is per 1,000 person-years. IMR = Infant Mortality Rate(0–1), CMR = Child Mortality Rate(1–4 years), U5MR = Under-five Mortality Rate(0–4). Estimated mortality rates are in italics
  3. 3 Results based on complete DSS analysis
  4. 4 Result is 2003 mid-year population.
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