Table 3 Reported causes of illness for the last person ill in the previous 2 weeks in the household overall and by age; mortality and health survey, MSF Walikale project, 2017
Total | Households where last person ill was < 5 | Households where last person ill was > =5 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | % | 95% CI | n | % | 95% CI | n | 95% CI | ||
Fever/malaria | 402 | 56.7 | 51.7–61.5 | 152 | 58.5 | 50.8–65.8 | 250 | 55.8 | 49.5–61.7 |
Respiratory infection | 85 | 12.0 | 9.0–15.9 | 45 | 17.3 | 12.1–24.1 | 40 | 8.9 | 5.8–13.4 |
Diarrhoea | 76 | 10.7 | 8.5–13.4 | 41 | 15.8 | 11.5–21.3 | 35 | 7.8 | 5.2–11.5 |
Other infectious | 34 | 4.8 | 3.0–7.5 | 10 | 3.8 | 2.0–7.3 | 24 | 5.3 | 3.0–9.3 |
Pregnancy related | 10 | 1.4 | 0.8–2.4 | 10 | 2.2 | 1.3–3.8 | |||
Trauma/accident | 7 | 1.0 | 0.5–2.0 | 1 | 0.4 | 0.0–2.9 | 6 | 1.3 | 0.6–2.9 |
Measles | 2 | 0.3 | 0.1–1.2 | 1 | 0.4 | 0.0–2.9 | 1 | 0.2 | 0.0–1.7 |
Other | 93 | 13.1 | 10.6–16.1 | 10 | 3.8 | 2.0–7.3 | 83 | 18.4 | 14.6–23.1 |