Inequalities in cause-specific mortality in children and adolescents in the Moramanga health survey, Madagascar
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21 juin 2020
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Rila Ratovoson et al., « Inequalities in cause-specific mortality in children and adolescents in the Moramanga health survey, Madagascar », Archined : l'archive ouverte de l'INED, ID : 10.1007/s00038-020-01409-z
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Objectives One child or young adolescent dies every 10 min in Madagascar and large disparities in survival persist. We estimated cause-specific mortality in a cohort of children aged 0–14 in the Moramanga district and explored how causes of death shape these inequalities. Methods Children were followed prospectively between 2012 and 2017. Causes of death were established based on verbal autopsies. Incidence rate ratios were estimated in Poisson regression models. Results The risk of dying before age 15 was 68.1 per thousand live births. Risks of dying were highest in the first year of life (31.2‰) and lowest in children aged 10–14 (6.4‰). The male-to-female sex ratios of mortality increased with age and reached 2.3 among adolescents aged 10–14. Communicable, nutritional and neonatal causes accounted for 79.5% of deaths below age 5 and 47.0% above age 5. Mortality was positively associated with household poverty, lack of education of the household head, and rural residence. Conclusions Interventions should be designed with an equity lens to reduce large disparities in survival and be tailored to the needs of each age-group.