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Table 3 Absolute and relative frequencies of social and health systems indicators as proportions of numbers of deaths, by COD categories

From: Moving from medical to health systems classifications of deaths: extending verbal autopsy to collect information on the circumstances of mortality

 

Recognition

Access

Quality of care

 

Category of COD

Doubts about the need for care

Use of traditional medicine

Overall costs prohibitive

Did not use cellphone

Did not travel to hospital/ health facility

>2 h to hospital/ health facility

Did not use motor transporta

Problems with admissiona

Problems with treatmenta

Problems with medicationsa

Total number of deaths n (%)

Infectious

28 (5.0)

102 (18.1)

254 (45.2)

178 (31.7)

123 (21.9)

6 (1.1)

9 (2.1)

8 (1.8)

17 (3.9)

19 (4.3)

562 (47.0)

Non-communicable

22 (4.7)

53 (11.3)

165 (35.3)

168 (35.9)

154 (32.9)

1 (0.2)

6 (1.9)

8 (2.5)

10 (3.2)

8 (2.5)

468 (39.1)

External

 

1 (1.2)

4 (4.7)

71 (82.6)

71 (82.6)

 

1 (6.7)

   

86 (7.2)

Indeterminate

3 (5.6)

4 (7.4)

6 (11.1)

31 (57.4)

34 (63.0)

  

2 (10.0)

1 (5.0)

 

54 (4.5)

Neonatal

 

1 (5.3)

3 (15.8)

11 (57.9)

7 (36.8)

     

19 (1.6)

Maternal

   

3 (42.9)

2 (28.6)

   

1 (20.0)

 

7 (0.6)

           

1196 (100.0)

Total number of indicators reported n (%)

53 (4.4)

161 (13.5)

432 (36.1)

462 (38.6)

391 (32.7)

7 (0.6)

16 (2.0)

18 (2.2)

29 (3.6)

27 (3.4)

 
  1. aDenominator for the relative frequency was the number of deaths that had travelled to a hospital or health facility
  2. N.B. Respondents were able to indicate more than one social and health system indicator for each death reported. Proportional frequencies of the new indicators therefore sum to >100 %