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PHYSICIANS’ AGREEMENT IN DETERMINING THE CAUSES OF DEATH USING VERBAL AUTOPSY DATA IN EASTERN TIGRAY, ETHIOPIAResearch Article • May 9th, 2018
Worldwide, 7.89 deaths per 1000 persons occur according to world death rate of 2014 estimate. In this estimate 17.49 deaths per 1000 in South Africa, 13.91 deaths per 1000 in Somalia, and 8.52 deaths per 1000 in Ethiopia with the rank of 1st, 9th and 77th respectively [1]. And the 17.1% from all neonatal mortality in Ethiopia was cause-unknown [2]. The major causes of death today in developed countries like the United States are heart disease, cancer, and stroke. These days, the major causes of death are also not the same in countries with high and low levels of life expectancy [3]. Causes of death are not systematically recorded in a well-organized database in many developing and least developed countries [4]. Even though determining the cause of death is an essential input for planning interventions on health and making an evaluation of the impact, the detailed information is not available readily in these settings since most deaths occur at home for health-related and cultural reaso
