BIBLIOGRAPHIC INPUT SHEET TEMPORARY Patterns of mortality ...

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Patternm.ofMortality iMChildhood
NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY
More deaths were attributed to this im- derlying cause. Marked differences were
portant group on death certificates than noted among the projects, with large inon
final assignment-1,336 compared with creases occurring in Recife and Cali.
881 (Table 199). This reduction was due On the basis of death certificates, 1,336
principally to the rules and procedures fol- deaths were assigned to nutritional delowed
in the Inve3stigation whereby the in- ficiency and only in one fifth of these (262
fectious disease was considered as under- deaths) were the specific types stated,
lying cause and the nutritional deficiency as namely, protein mahiutrition (category
contributory cause. Thus, if measles or di- 267) with 96 deaths and nutritional marasarrheal
disease initiated the chain of events mus (category 268) with 166 deaths. Difleading
to death they were assigned as un- ferentiation between types of nutritional de-
TAuLE 199. Deaths Assigned to Nutritional Deficiency as Underlying Cause Based on Death Certificates
and on Final Assignments, with Ratios,, in Children Under 5 Years of Age in 14 Projects.
ProjectFia
Deaths Deaths Deaths Deaths
Ratio Ratio Ratio Ratio
Cer-Final tifica Cer Cer- retIFnl t Fcato
tifiCat F tificat
Nutritional Protein Nutritional Other nutritional
deficiency malnutrition marasmus deficiency
(260-260) (267) (268) (260-260,269)
b
Tota .................
1,330 881 0.60 90 504 5.25 160 344 2.07 1,074 33 0.03
ARGENTINA
Chaco Province ........ 161 43 0.27 7 16 2.29 19 10 1.00 135 8 0.00
San Juan Province... 140 63 0.45 I 5 # 21 52 2.48 118 3 0.03
BOLIVIA project ....... 149 53 0.36 18 26 1.44 18 20 1.44 113 1 0.01
BRAZIL
Recife ............... 04 137 1.40 37 100 2.70 0 30 0.00 51 1 0.02
nibeirfto Prato ........ 04 25 0.39 0 15 2.80 10 10 1.00 48 - *
SAo Paulo ............ 237 99 0.42 12 29 2.42 00 59 0.98 165 11 0.07
CANADA
Sherbrooke .......... - - . . . . . . . ..
CHILE project ......... 53 51 0.00 4 11 2.75 9 39 4.33 40 1 0.02
COLOMBIA
Call ................. 78 118 1.49 1 84 84.00 6 30 5.00 71 2 0.03
Cartagena ............ 88 107 1.22 3 88 29.33 2 15 7.50 83 4 0.05
Medellin ............. 03 59 0.94 - 44 * 4 15 3.75 59 - *
JAMAICA
Kingston-St. Andrew.. 62 50 0.90 4 34 8.50 4 21 5.25 8- 1 0.02
MEXICO
Monterrey ........... 147 72 0.49 3 49 '10.33 7 22 3.14 137 1 0.01
UNITED STATES
Caiifornia project. - . . . . . . . ..
Ratio of deaths on final assignment to those assigned from death certificates.
bIncludes only deaths with information available from death certificates and from other sources.
* Ratio not computed for less than 10 deaths by each assignment.
* More than 10 deaths by one assignment, none by the other.