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. 2014 Oct 29;7:10.3402/gha.v7.25523. doi: 10.3402/gha.v7.25523

Table 2.

Cause-specific mortality fraction (%) by neighborhood, 2009–2011

Cause of death Formal (n=485) (%) Informal (n=547) (%) Both (n=1,032) (%)
Communicable diseases (CDs) 26.6 45.5 36.6
 Sepsis (non-obstetric) 0.8 0.4 0.6
 Acute resp infect incl. pneumonia 8.0 11.7 10.0
 HIV-/AIDS-related death 4.8 6.7 5.8
 Diarrheal diseases 1.2 4.9 3.2
 Malaria 7.1 15.8 11.7
 Meningitis and encephalitis 2.1 3.1 2.6
 Pulmonary tuberculosis 2.4 2.1 2.2
 Other and unspecified infect dis 0.2 0.8 0.5
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) 36.7 16.9 26.2
 Neoplasms 11.9 4.7 8.1
 Severe anemia 0.3 0.3 0.3
 Severe malnutrition 1.8 3.1 2.5
 Diabetes 0.8 0.2 0.5
 Cardiovascular diseases 17.7 5.7 11.3
 Asthma 0.3 0.2 0.2
 Acute abdomen 3.1 2.3 2.7
 Renal failure 0.0 0.1 0.0
 Epilepsy 0.4 0.3 0.4
 Other and unspecified NCDs 0.4 0.0 0.2
Maternal/neonatal 2.9 7.9 5.6
 Maternal causes 0.8 0.4 0.6
 Neonatal causes 2.1 7.5 5.0
Injuries 4.3 3.9 4.1
Indeterminate 11.1 12.5 11.8
VA not done 18.4 13.3 15.7