Author(s)

Shuli Xing^1*, Zhiqiang Sun^2*, Maolin Du^1*, Xuesen Shi³, Hairong Zhang¹, Zhanlong Wang⁴, Xiaoyan Zhang², Zhihui Hao⁵, Zhuang Su¹, Ying Yang⁶, Rong Liu⁷, Yueling Hu¹, Juan Sun¹

¹Department of Social and Environmental Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
¹Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China.
²Inner Mongolia Medical University Affiliated Hospital, Hohhot, China.
³The Tumor Hospital of Baotou City, Baotou, China.
⁴The First Affiliated Hospital of Baotou Medical College, Baotou, China.
⁵Inner Mongolia People’s Hospital, Hohhot, China.
⁶Inner Mongolia Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, Hohhot, China.
⁷Department of Social and Environmental Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.

Objective: The aim of our study was to analyze the character of cause of death in Inner Mongolia of China from 2008 to 2014. Methods: We collected data from monitoring points of the Death Registry System (DRS) in Inner Mongolia. We calculated the mortality rates by gender, year and age-specific. We calculated the proportion, the mortality rate and potential years of life lost (PYLL) of various system deaths. Results: During the period 2008-2014, the average crude mortality rate of all cause of death was 539.33/105. The mortality rate increased semilogarithm linearly with age. The top four system deaths were circulatory system, neoplasm, respiratory system and injury. In 2014, the mortality rates of circulatory system were increased and the mortality rates of certain infectious and parasitic diseases, neoplasms, respiratory system, genitourinary system and injury were decreased compared to those in 2008. Conclusion: Through analysis the indicators of proportion, the mortality rate and PYLL indicated that health status of a population in Inner Mongolia was at a better level.

Cause of Death, Mortality Rate, PYLL

Xing, S. , Sun, Z. , Du, M. , Shi, X. , Zhang, H. , Wang, Z. , Zhang, X. , Hao, Z. , Su, Z. , Yang, Y. , Liu, R. , Hu, Y. and Sun, J. (2017) Analysis of Cause of Death in Inner Mongolia of China, 2008-2014. Open Journal of Epidemiology, 7, 10-17. doi: 10.4236/ojepi.2017.71002.