Causes of childhood deaths in Bangladesh: results of a nationwide verbal autopsy study.

The present study was undertaken to update the information available on causes of deaths among under-5-year-olds, taking advantage of advances in verbal autopsy methodology and of the national Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey conducted in 1993-94. [...] Since one objective of BDHS to the illness; and (5) a final section to record the was to provide separate estimates for each of the five direct, underlying and contributing causes of death divisions of the country as well as for urban and rural from the death certificate, if it was available. [...] This information included the questions about the maximum number of diarrhoea name of the child, the name of the child's mother, the stools. [...] Nearly one-third of the ALRI deaths and about half of the diarrhoea (30.1%) of all deaths in this age group were attrib- and measles deaths. [...] Overall, the death were watery diarrhoea (4.6% alone, a further number of deaths of girls was actually slightly higher 2.9% in combination with ALRI, and a further 9.9% than the number of deaths of boys.