[ causes of death of the women in age of procreation at the hospitals of Sfax]

To study the principal causes of death of the women dead at an age ranging between 15 and 49 years old and having been hospitalized in a public medical structures of the gouvernorat of Sfax. Retrospective study concerning all the included deaths between 1999 and 2007. The study was related to 728 deaths, which correspond to an average of 80.88 deaths FAR per year. Public highway accidents were the major cause of death [83 cases, 11.4% of the causes of death] followed by the burns [37 cases, 5%] and the cerebral vascular accidents [31 cases, 4.25%]. The classification of the causes of death according to groups of pathologies showed the prevalence of the cardio- vascular diseases [18.7%], the external causes of death [18.2%], cancers [11.6%] and the causes related to the pregnancy and the childbirth [8.5%]. The maternal death rate was of 56.91 per 100000. The cause of maternal death was directly related to the pregnancy in 67.74% of the cases. The immediate causes were prevailed by the hemorrhagic causes [27.5%]. The death was avoidable in 48.83% of the cases and the failures were related to the woman in 60% of the cases. The prevention of new practices of life [female nicotinism, obesity, bad food habits, lack of vigilance in traffic] and a better practice of the primary and secondary prevention in medicine could decrease the premature death rates in Tunisia

[Adolescent's hospital morbidity in Sfax-Tunisia]

Adolescents present specific sanitary needs, linked to the physical and psychological mutations that occur during this vulnerable period of life. These needs remain little known in Tunisia. But: To describe epidemiological profile of morbidity of teenagers hospitalized in Hedi Chaker's hospital center of Sfax, during a period of 5 years, between 2003 and 2007. Data exploitation of the descriptive survey of morbidity and mortality of hospitalized adolescents. During the study, 2963 adolescents of 10 to 19 years have been hospitalized [5.1% of total of hospitalizations]. Paediatrics received 36.9% of adolescents. Paediatrics, haematology and infectious diseases's services received 58.5% of them. According to the groups of diagnosis, genitourinary and endocrine's diseases, dominate for girls, whereas infectious and parasitic diseases and tumors touched more boys. Diabetes, signs and general symptoms, leukaemia and anaemia, were the most frequent pathologies. Taking care of teenagers is often parcelled out on several hospitable services. Therefore, the improvement of the greeting services, in order to answer the teenager's relational needs home a temporary solution, while hoping, the setting up of units or specific services of adolescents that showed evidence of their utility for the development of the medicine of the teenagers in the industrialized countries

Sanitary's indicators of the university hospital hedi chaker of sfax in 2002

The objective of this work was to present the main results of this investigation during the year 2002 and to describe the profile of the hospital morbidity. In the setting of the epidemiologic supervision, the Community Medicine and Epidemiology service in Sfax leads a continuous descriptive study of the hospital morbidity and mortality. The average age of the hospitalized was 32, 10 years. The sex-ratio was estimated at 0, 94. The socio-economic level was relatively low. The chronic pathologies come in head and are dominated by the chronic renal failure, schizophrenia and diabetes. The profile of morbidity reflects an epidemiological transition phenomenon and call to a backing of the ambulatory handling and the development of specific services capable to make decrease the needs of hospitalizations