Categories of cause of morbidity were based on those listed in the HMIS data and these were: malaria, acute respiratory infection, pneumonia, eye infection, ear infection, skin infections, urinary tract infection and 'other' (other is a mean cost of all other treatment groups).
Figure 2 shows age sex time standardised mortality rates for each site, by major categories of cause of death (infections, neoplasms, NCDs, maternal/neonatal, trauma, and indeterminate).
Amongst five categories of causes that could lead civilizations to a collapse, Diamond puts the lack of social cohesion.
An important limitation of the study is that the analysis restricts to only three major categories of causes of death (i.e., communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional; injuries; noncommunicable).
Furthermore, although there is no reason to suspect broad categories of causes of TSCI to systematically differ in reporting, as there is a large amount of missing information for work-related injuries and intent of injury, these statistics should be interpreted with caution.
The ICD-10 codes contained in each of these categories can be seen in Tables 1 and 2. We compared the defined categories of causes of death coded by each physician and percent agreement using the kappa statistic[19].
The kappa statistics obtained in the current study show that VA generates highly reliable results, at least among the 9 major categories of causes of death used in our study.
Users have different perspectives on the required level of accuracy and categories of cause-specific mortality data, with corresponding impacts on desirable characteristics of VA instruments (4).
In our study, except for cancers not established to be smoking-related [ 5], current smoking was associated with an significantly increased risk of mortality from all categories of cause-specific mortality examined (lung cancer, other smoking-related cancers, circulatory diseases, MI, cerebrovascular diseases, COBP, and other respiratory diseases).
We stratified the data according to categories of causes of death: CVD, respiratory deaths, stroke, and diabetes.
This method for analyzing incidents distinguishes four main categories of causes: technical, organizational, human and patient related.
