Causes and trends of adult mortality in southern Ethiopia: an eight-year follow up database study.

Although the total number of deaths from all causes shows a decreasing trend, the percent share of deaths in each surveillance year showed an increasing trend for communicable diseases compared to the other broad causes of adult deaths (Fig. 2 ).

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Communicable diseases (49.2%, 95% C.I 45.7, 52.7) accounted for about half of the deaths followed by non-communicable diseases (35%, 95% C.I 31.7, 38.4) where both categories showed an increasing trend.

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