Related to Death rates:life expectancy,Birth rates death rate n. The ratio of total deaths to total population in a specified community or area over a specified period of time. The death rate is often expressed as the number of deaths per 1,000 of the population per year. Also calledfatal...
Reports on the number of women who die in Kenya every year from pregnancy-related complications. Claim of chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Health Newton Kulundu that more than half the deaths resulted from complications during or after abortion, which is illegal in Kenya; Topic of the...
This paper examines mortality by cause of death in a rural area of Machakos district in Kenya. The cause-of-death data collected between 1975 and 1978 were likely to be of fairly good quality. The number of deaths was higher among infants and children. Infectious diseases and diseases of th...
Many parts of West Kenya are prone to lightning attack during the short rains which begin early in August and end in December. So far the thunder ball has killed more than 12 people in various places including Nandi, Bungoma, Busia and Ksii,and Bomet regions since the beginning of last mo...
While the intensity of combined burden at the second administrative level and at the national level often coincided, such as in CAR, which had the highest country-level mean combined DALY rate (1.4 per child-year [0.9–1.9]) and two of the top 10 highest unit-level combined rates, this ...
Therefore, the estimated perinatal death rates may be lower than the actual values in this setting. The study did not capture information on type of pregnancy, existing co-morbidities, gestation age at birth, care given to the newborn, and the effect of postnatal care to the mother on the ...
Figure 1 shows the numbers of enrolled cases and controls, the number of households that had a follow-up visit at about 60 days after enrolment, and deaths in all age strata combined for the GEMS study, GEMS-1A study, and Kenya during the GEMS-1A study where only MSD cases were enrolled...
Kenya has 22 deaths from the 535 positive cases while Uganda seems to have fairly managed the pandemic, having not registered any single death. For Tanzania, it has been the question of the effectiveness of the test kits, which have been doubted by President Pombe ...
The article presents information related to the rising death rates among Somali refugees, following a devastating famine. According to the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Refugees, the greatest concern among camps of internally displaced pe...
Objectives: The study is aimed at assessing the profile of unnatural death in an oil-rich city in Niger Delta region. 16 On top of the larynx there if a fold of tissue called the epiglottis. From all causes, roughly 150,000 people die around the world each day. Falls: Falls are the ...