Survey on children mortality in Quang Ninh province December 1997

ABSTRACT

A survey on mortality was conducted in December 1997 in Quang Ninh. 60 out of 178 communes were randomly selected for the survey and 60 commune health staffs made the interviews from commune health supervised by 20 physicians from the provincial center for preventive medicine. It was found that the mortality rates of under 1 and under 5 year old children were 23 and 36 per thousand live births respectively. High mortality due to ARI and accidents was recorded. Mortality due to diarrhoea, malnutrition and vaccine preventable diseases was low. 25% of children deaths were recurred at home out