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- Title
Reporting Deaths Among Children Aged <5 Years After the Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic - Bombali District, Sierra Leone, 2015-2016.
- Authors
Wilkinson, Amanda L.; Kaiser, Reinhard; Jalloh, Mohamed F.; Kamara, Mamudi; Blau, Dianna M.; Raghunathan, Pratima L.; Kamara, Alpha; Kamara, Umaru; Houston-Suluku, Nathaniel; Clarke, Kevin; Jambai, Amara; Redd, John T.; Hersey, Sara; Osaio-Kamara, Brima
- Abstract
Mortality surveillance and vital registration are limited in Sierra Leone, a country with one of the highest mortality rates among children aged <5 years worldwide, approximately 120 deaths per 1,000 live births (1,2). To inform efforts to strengthen surveillance, stillbirths and deaths in children aged <5 years from multiple surveillance streams in Bombali Sebora chiefdom were retrospectively reviewed. In total, during January 2015-November 2016, 930 deaths in children aged <5 years were identified, representing 73.3% of the 1,269 deaths that were expected based on modeled estimates. The "117" telephone alert system established during the Ebola virus disease (Ebola) epidemic captured 683 (73.4%) of all reported deaths in children aged <5 years, and was the predominant reporting source for stillbirths (n = 172). In the absence of complete vital events registration, 117 call alerts markedly improved the completeness of reporting of stillbirths and deaths in children aged <5 years.
- Subjects
SIERRA Leone; EBOLA virus disease; JUVENILE diseases; PUBLIC health; EPIDEMICS; STILLBIRTH
- Publication
MMWR: Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, 2017, Vol 66, Issue 41, p1116
- ISSN
0149-2195
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.15585/mmwr.mm6641a5