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Table 2 Cause-specific mortality fractions for neonates (day of life 0 to 28) and non-neonates (day of life 29 to 5 years)

From: Causes of death and predictors of childhood mortality in Rwanda: a matched case-control study using verbal social autopsy

Age group

GBD Group 1 (Communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional disorders)

GBD Group 2 (Non-communicable diseases)

GBD Group 3 (Injuries)

Cause of death

CSMF

Cause of death

CSMF

Cause of death

CSMF

Neonates

Neonatal pneumonia

26.5

Congenital malformation

1.0

  

Birth asphyxia

11.3

Epilepsy

0.6

  

Other and unspecified neonatal COD

8.5

Other and unspecified cardiac disease

0.4

  

Meningitis and encephalitis

7.9

    

Prematurity

6.4

    

Neonatal sepsis

5.6

    

Acute abdomena

0.5

    

TOTAL

66.7

TOTAL

2.0

TOTAL

Non-neonates

Malaria

34.7

Epilepsy

2.3

Accidental drowning and submersion

1.3

Acute resp. infections, including pneumonia

19.7

Congenital malformation

0.9

Road traffic accident

0.7

HIV/AIDS-related death

12.0

Asthma

0.7

Other and unspecified external COD

0.6

Acute abdomena

7.6

  

Other transport accident

0.6

Diarrheal diseases

5.9

  

Assault

0.5

Meningitis and encephalitis

1.2

    

Other and unspecified infect disease

0.9

    

Severe malnutrition

0.9

    

TOTAL

82.9

TOTAL

3.9

TOTAL

3.7

  1. 31.3% of neonatal deaths and 9.5% of non-neonatal deaths identified as “indeterminate”
  2. COD cause of death, CSMF Cause-specific mortality fraction, GBD Global Burden of Disease
  3. aMay have mixed etiologies