Reporting Deaths Among Children Aged <5 Years After the Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic — Bombali District, Sierra Leone, 2015–2016

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• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Personal Author:
  Wilkinson, Amanda L. ; Kaiser, Reinhard ; Jalloh, Mohamed F. ; Kamara, Mamudi ; Blau, Dianna M. ; Raghunathan, Pratima L. ; Kamara, Alpha ; Kamara, Umaru ; Houston-Suluku, Nathaniel ; Clarke, Kevin ; Jambai, Amara ; Redd, John T. ; Hersey, Sara ; Osaio-Kamara, Brima
• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)Epidemic Intelligence Service. ; Center for Global Health (U.S.)Division of Global Health Protection.
• Description:
  Mortality Surveillance and vital registration are limited in Sierra Leone, a country with one of the highest Mortality rates among children aged <5 years Worldwide, approximately 120 deaths per 1,000 live births (1,2). To inform efforts to strengthen Surveillance, stillbirths and deaths in children aged <5 years from multiple Surveillance streams in Bombali Sebora chiefdom were retrospectively reviewed. In total, during January 2015-November 2016, 930 deaths in children aged <5 years were identified, representing 73.3% of the 1,269 deaths that were expected based on modeled estimates. The "117" telephone alert system established during the Ebola Virus disease (Ebola) epidemic captured 683 (73.4%) of all reported deaths in children aged <5 years, and was the predominant reporting source for stillbirths (n = 172). In the absence of complete vital events registration, 117 call alerts markedly improved the completeness of reporting of stillbirths and deaths in children aged <5 years.
• Subjects:
  Child, Preschool Child Mortality Epidemics Full Report Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola Humans Infant Infant, Newborn Infant Mortality Mandatory Reporting Population Surveillance Stillbirth

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• Source:
  MMWR Morbidity Mortal Weekly Rep. 66(41):1116-1118.
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6641a5
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Pubmed ID:
  29049274
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5689092
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Sierra Leone
• Pages in Document:
  3 pdf pages
• Volume:
  66
• Issue:
  41
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Main Document Checksum:
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