LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH AMONG CHILDREN UNDER 5 YEARS OF AGE IN THE VARIOUS POPULATION GROUPS OF THE RSA IN 1970

  • 1 January 1984
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 66  (19) , 717-718
Abstract
The mortality rates (MR) of children < 5 yr of age in the various population groups of [South Africa] were calculated as deaths/105 for various causes of death and groupings of causes of death as classified by the International Classification of Diseases. In 1970 the 10 leading causes of death among Colored and Black children < 5 yr of age in South Africa were similar to those among children in developing countries. The rank order of causes of death (in MR/105) among Colored children was as follows: gastroenteritis (1733), pneumonia (725), immaturity (405), ill-defined causes of death (168), nutritional deficiencies (167), measles (126), anoxia (97), other bacterial diseases (91), inflammatory diseases of the nervous system (55) and tuberculosis (48). The 10 leading causes of death among White children in South Africa were characteristic of children in Western developed countries. The rank order (in MR/105) was as follows: immaturity (144), anoxia (94), pneumonia (46), gastroenteritis (41), congenital heart disease (32), other accidents (19), birth injury (19), ill-defined causes of death (12) and inflammatory diseases of the nervous system (11).

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