Community Causes of Death in the Central Region of Ghana, the Missing Piece in Mortality Data

Table 3

Categories of underlying causes of deaths in the community.

Underlying cause of death	<1 mo	1 mo–12 mo	13 mo–17 yrs	18 yrs–44 yrs	45 yrs–64 yrs	≥65 yrs	Total	%
Accidents/injuries/poisoning
RTA pedestrian	0	1	34	59	31	13	138	21.732
RTA passenger	0	1	3	75	20	6	105	16.535
RTA-motor bike/cyclist	0	0	6	27	6	0	39	6.1417
RTA driver	0	0	0	28	10	0	38	5.984
Total	0	2	43	189	67	19	320	50.394
Drowning	0	1	33	48	6	7	95	14.961
Blunt injury (head, chest, and abdomen)/assault	0	1	2	36	9	0	48	7.559
Gunshot injury	0	0	8	20	5	1	34	5.354
Hanging	0	0	6	16	5	4	31	4.882
Trapped by falling object	0	0	8	11	8	0	27	4.252
Incised wound (chops/stab)	0	0	2	16	4	3	25	3.937
Burns	0	1	2	7	3	1	14	2.205
Electrocution	0	0	6	7	0	0	13	2.047
Poisoning	0	0	0	5	3	1	9	1.417
Fall from height	0	0	1	6	0	1	8	1.260
Asphyxia due to entrapment by a falling tree, wall, pit, vehicle, etc.	0	0	1	1	1	0	3	0.472
Pathological fracture	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0.315
Snake bite	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	0.315
Human bite	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0.158
Inhaled foreign body	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	0.315
Smothering	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.158
Total	1	5	114	364	111	40	635	100
Infections
Pneumonia	0	0	5	7	12	7	31	31.959
Gastroenteritis, enterocolitis, and typhoid enteritis	1	0	6	7	3	1	18	18.557
TB	0	0	0	6	5	2	13	13.402
Meningitis	0	0	3	4	2	1	10	10.309
Secondary peritonitis from bowel perforation, and primary peritonitis	0	0	1	2	2	0	5	5.155
Chronic glomerulonephritis	0	0	0	2	1	0	3	3.093
Acute pyelonephritis	0	0	0	2	1	0	3	3.093
Empyema thoracis	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	2.062
Encephalitis	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	2.062
HIV/AIDS	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	2.062
Hepatitis B	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1.031
Endocarditis	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	1.031
Alcoholic hepatitis	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1.031
Subdural abscess	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1.031
Septic arthritis	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	1.031
Osteomyelitis	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1.031
Lung abscess	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1.031
Rabies	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	1.031
Total	1	0	19	36	29	12	97	100.000