Most common causes of natural and injury-related deaths in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 205, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 608-614

  Gemechu, Tufa ^a   Tinsae, Mihrete ^a   Ashenafi, Senait ^a   Rodriguez, Victor Manuel ^b   Lori, Alfredo ^b   Collins, Michelle ^c   Hurford, Rosemary ^d   Haimanot, Rahel ^e   Sandoval, Melissa ^d   Mehari, Enawgaw ^e   Langford, T Dianne ^f  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b Menelik II Hospital   (Ethiopia)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e People to People Inc   (United States)

^f TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Cause death; Pathology

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; AUTOPSY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DROWNING; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEAD INJURY; HEART FAILURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INJURY; INTOXICATION; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; SEPSIS; SEX RATIO; STAB WOUND; STRANGULATION; STROKE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 67749123989     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: 16180631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prp.2009.02.007     Document Type: Article

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