What is it about?
The National Reproductive Age Mortality Survey was conducted in Georgia, to identify real causes of death for women aged 15–49 years in 2012. The leading causes were compared with those in 2006, using directly age-standardized death rates. The accuracy of official cause-of-death data was assessed against verbal autopsy (VA) diagnoses, using kappa statistics, sensitivity, positive predictive value, and misclassification analyses.
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Why is it important?
Understanding of women’s health problems during the reproductive years, based on reliable cause-of-death data, is of critical importance to avoid premature female mortality. This study aimed to investigate mortality levels, cause-specific patterns, and trends in women of reproductive age in Georgia and defined, that NCDs continue to be the major health threats for Georgian women of reproductive age.
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I hope, that findings of the study could be served as a baseline knowledge for evidence-based health policy and development of the robust strategies addressing avoidable premature female mortality and for the effective application of health promotion and risk reduction interventions to be focused on NCDs and reproductive health needs with an integrated approach.
Maia Kereselidze
University of Georgia
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This page is a summary of: Leading causes of death of women of reproductive age in the Republic of Georgia: findings from the National Reproductive Age Mortality Survey (2014), International Journal of Women s Health, August 2018, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/ijwh.s164053.
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