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. 2019 Jan 28;31(10):695–707. doi: 10.1089/vim.2018.0054

Table 2.

Number of Vaccine-Preventable and Nonvaccine-Preventable Infections in the Context of Total and Infectious Mortality in Ukraine in 1965, 1991, and 2015

Nosological form Years Number Percentage of infectious mortality Percentage of total mortality
All ages 0–14 15 & ↑ All ages 0–14 15 & ↑ All ages 0–14 15 & ↑
The number of deaths from all causes 1965 344,743 24,998 319,745       100 100 100
1991 671,919 17,305 654,614       100 100 100
2015 594,796 4,853 589,943       100 100 100
1965/2015 0.6 5.2 0.5       1.0 1.0 1.0
Including all infectious and parasitic diseases* and pneumonia, flu, and Acute Upper Respiratory Infections 1965 25,745 9,858 15,887 100 100 100 7.47 39.4 4.97
1991 10,256 2,065 8,191 100 100 100 1.53 11.9 1.25
2015 14,919 354 14,565 100 100 100 2.51 7.29 2.47
1965/2015 1.7 27.8 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.0 3.0 5.4 2.0
All nonvaccine-preventable infections 1965 24,966 9,500 15,466 96.97 96.37 97.35 7.24 38.0 4.84
1991 9,998 2,013 7,985 97.48 97.48 97.49 1.49 11.6 1.22
2015 14,641 351 14,290 98.14 99.15 98.11 2.46 7.23 2.42
1965/2015 1.7 27.1 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.0 2.9 5.3 2.0
Vaccine-preventable infections (tuberculosis, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, poliomyelitis, and hepatitis B) 1965 12,985 531 12,454 50.44 5.39 78.39 3.77 2.12 3.89
1991 4,782 68 4,714 46.63 3.29 57.55 0.71 0.39 0.72
2015 5,082 17 5,065 34.06 4.80 34.78 0.85 0.35 0.86
1965/2015 2.6 31.2 2.5 1.5 1.1 2.3 4.4 6.1 4.5
Vaccine-preventable infections without tuberculosis (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, poliomyelitis, and hepatitis B) 1965 779 358 421 3.03 3.63 2.65 0.23 1.43 0.13
1991 258 52 206 2.52 2.52 2.51 0.04 0.30 0.03
2015 278 3 275 1.86 0.85 1.89 0.05 0.06 0.05
1965/2015 2.8 119.3 1.5 1.6 4.3 1.4 4.8 23.2 2.8
Potentially vaccine-preventable infections (pneumonia, influenza, Acute Upper Respiratory Infections, and meningococcal infection) 1965 10,266 7,938 2,328 39.88 80.52 14.65 2.98 31.8 0.73
1991 4,367 1,485 2,882 42.58 71.91 35.18 0.65 8.58 0.44
2015 5,079 213 4,866 34.04 60.17 33.41 0.85 4.39 0.82
1965/2015 2.0 37.3 0.5 1.2 1.3 0.4 3.5 7.2 0.9

*All cases of death from infectious diseases that belong to the first class (some infectious and parasitic diseases - A00–B99) of the International Classification of Diseases of the 10th revision (ICH-10), as well as pneumonia, influenza (J09–J18), and acute respiratory infections of the upper respiratory pathways (J00–J06), which belong to the X class (respiratory diseases) (17).