Implementation and utilisation of community-based mortality surveillance: a case study from Chad

Table 2 Comparison of MSF mortality surveillance data and mortality survey estimates available for Eastern Chad. 2006–2010

Study	MSF mortality surveillance system						Retrospective mortality survey estimates
Study	December 2006		July 2007		December 2007		2006-2007(Source: CRED, 2011) [[15]]		May 2007(Source: Guerrier et al., 2009) [[16]]
Indicator**	CDR	U5DR	CDR	U5DR	CDR	U5DR	CDR	U5DR	CDR	U5DR
Farchana	0.14*	0.31*	0.16	0.55	0.13	0.32	0.4	0.6
Breidjing	0.18	0.33	0.17	0.61	0.31	0.32	0.4	0.6
Gassire			0.4	1.0	0.07	0.30
Ade			0.5	1.9	0.08	0.47
Kerfi			2.1	7.9	0.5*	1.7*
Dogdore							0.9	2.0
Goz Beida									1.8	4.1

CDR = Crude death rate; U5DR = Death rate in under-5 population; *November figure taken when December figure unavailable; ** Deaths/10000/day.
Note: The survey undertaken by CRED [15] was of mortality in the Goz Beida region. This region is the location of MSF projects Gassire, Ade and Kerfi. The survey undertaken by Guerrier et al.[16] measured mortality in Dogdore, an IDP settlement located 30Km west of the Chad-Sudan border and 120Km east of Goz Beida (and MSF projects in Gassire, Ade and Kerfi).

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