Health and Vital Statistics in Zimbabwe

CAUSE OF DEATH

Male

Female

Total

1

Other venereal diseases AIDS Slims diseases

5 748

3 848

9 596

2

Pulmonary tuberculosis

5 104

2 794

7 898

3

Other ill- defined and unknown causes of morbidity and mortality

4 891

2 724

7 615

4

Pneumonia organism unspecified

3 292

2 391

5 683

5

Ill-defined intestinal diseases

2 998

2 144

5 142

1.

GENERAL INFORMATION

1.1.

PHYSICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE BORDERS  

1.1.1.

Administrative borders map by district

1.2. 

CLIMATE AND RAINFALL  

1.2.1.

Rainfall and Temperature by main meteorological station and rain season

2.

DEMOGRAPHIC PATTERN

2.1.1.a.

Population by province and main demographic group

2.1.1.b.

2001 Population Projection

2.1.1.c.

Figure: Population Projections by Sex, Age groups, 2002

2.1.2.

Population projections by province/city, 1995-2002

2.1.3. 

Population projections by district, 2002

3.1.2.a.

Average Annual Household Cash Income by Province/City, 1995/1996

3.1.2.b.

Average Annual Household Incomes in Kind by Province/City, 1995/96

3.1.3.a.

National Production of Crops, 1993-2002

3.1.3.b.

National Production of Crops in marketing value, 1993-2002

3.1.3.c.

National Production of Maize and Sorghum, 1993-2002

3.1.4.a.

Primary School Enrolment by Sector, 2002

3.1.4.b.

Secondary School Enrolment by Sector, 2002

3.1.5. 

Government Budget Allocation breakdown, 2002

3.1.6.

MOH&CW allocation breakdown, 2002

3.1.7.

MOH&CW Expenditure breakdown, 2002

4.1.1.

Weight for age in 0-4 yrs by age group and province/city, 2002

4.1.2

Weight for age (%) below line by province and district, 2002

4.1.2.

Map for Weight for age Percent below the line by district/city

4.1.2.a.

Percent below the line weight for age, Top 20 districts, 2002

4.1.2.b.

Map Percent below the line weight for age, Top 20 districts

4.1.2.c.

Household Poverty assessment, Top Ten Districts, 1995

4.1.3.

Weight for age by month, children under five years, 1999-2002

4.1.4

Percentage below the line, Weight for age by month, 1999-2002

4.1.5. 

Low Birth Weight trend by year, 1996-2002

4.1.6.

Annual OPD Clinical Nutritional Deficiencies by Year, 1995-2002

4.1.6.

Chart for OPD Clinical Nutritional Deficiencies by Year, 1995-2002

4.2.1.

 Notifiable Diseases & Reported Outbreaks   

4.2.1.1.

Notifiable diseases by province, All Ages

4.2.1.2.

Notifiable diseases trend by year and by nation, 1992-2002

4.2.1.3.

Outbreak National summary, 2002

4.2.2.

Out-patient Diseases and Conditions

4.2.2.1.a.

OPD general new dis/cond by age groups, 2002

4.2.2.1.b.

OPD general new dis/cond breakdown by province/city, 2002

4.2.2.1.c.

Fig: Top ten OPD general dis/cond by age group, 2002

4.2.2.2.

Selected OPD new general disease breakdown, by age group, 2002

4.2.2.2.a.

Selected OPD new general disease breakdown, by province, 2002

4.2.2.3 

OPD chronic dis/cond by age group, province/city, 2002

4.2.2.3a 

OPD chronic dis/cond by age group, 2002

4.2.2.3b

OPD chronic dis/cond by province/city, 2002

4.2.2.4.

Monthly OPD leading conditions

4.2.2.5.

Public Health Surveillance Weekly Report  

4.2.2.6.

Annual trend of some OPD General new dis/cond, 1996-2002

4.2.3.

In-patient Diseases and Conditions 

4.2.3.1.

Selected diagnoses by age group, 2002

4.2.3.2.

Hospital Diagnoses, Bed days, length of stay

4.2.3.3.

Top ten diagnosis inpatient by age group

4.2.3.4.

Top ten causes of hospital death by age group

4.2.3.5. 

Top ten causes of hospital bed stay: average and percentage of stay

4.2.3.6.

Hospital diagnoses at discharge and death, 1992-2002

4.2.3.7.

All Hospital Diagnoses, including Central Hospitals

4.2.3.8.

Top 10 Diagnoses of Inpatient discharges, and deaths

4.2.4.

EPI Target diseases

4.2.4.1.

All EPI target diseases by vaccination status, by prov/city, 2002

4.2.4.2.

Measles, AFP/Polio by age group, vaccination status, prov/city

4.2.4.3.

All EPI target diseases, inpatient cases & deaths by province

4.2.4.4.

Measles, NNT, AFP/Polio trend by year, 1996-2002

4.2.4.5.a.

Measles new cases trend by year, 1986-2002

4.2.4.5.b.

Measles inpatient cases and deaths by age group and Province

4.2.4.5.c.

Measles hospital CFR by prov/city, 2002

4.2.4.5.d.

Measles incidence rate by district, 2002

4.2.4.5.d.

Measles map incidence rate by district, 2002

4.3.1.

HIV and related diseases   

4.3.1.1.

AIDS new cases laboratory reported by age group and sex

4.3.1.2.

ARC, AIDS new cases and related diseases by prov/city

4.3.1.3.

HIV and related conditions by year, 1992-2002

4.3.1.4.

HIV sentinel surveillance data in antenatal care by year, 1997-2002

4.3.1.5.a.

HIV sentinel site % data in antenatal care by year, 1991-2002

4.3.1.5.b.

Adult HIV and AIDS death Projections, 1990-2005

4.3.1.6.

HIV (N/A)

4.3.1.7.

TB new cases by age group, by sex, by prov/city

4.3.1.7.a.

Charts for TB new cases by age group, by sex, by prov/city

4.3.1.8.

TB Notification by year, 1991-1999

4.3.1.8. a.

Charts: TB cases sputum positivity rate vs all clinical types, 1991-1999 

4.3.1.9.  

TB national indicators by prov/city

4.3.2.

ARI diseases   

4.3.2.1.

ARI outpatients by age group and by province, 2002

4.3.2.2. 

ARI OPD new case breakdown, incidence rate, workload %, all ages

4.3.2.3.

Respiratory diseases, OPD trends by year, by age group, 1992-2002

4.3.2.4.

ARI inpatient cases, deaths, CFR by age and province/city, 2002

4.3.3.

Malaria

4.3.3.1.

Malaria OPD Clinical cases by age, incidence rate, prov/city, 2002

4.3.3.2.

Malaria OPD Clinical cases and rainfall trends by year, 1992-2002

4.3.3.3. 

Malaria OPD Clinical cases seasonal trend by month, 2002

4.3.3.4.

Malaria inpatient cases and deaths, hosp CFR, by province, 2002

4.3.3.5.

Map of Malaria OPD clinical cases, incidence rate, by district, all ages

4.3.3.6.

Malaria Top 20 district incidence rate, OPD clinical cases, 2002

4.3.3.7.

Malaria OPD clinical cases, B/S positivity rate (N/A)  

4.3.4.

Diarrhoea and Dysentery  

4.3.4.1. 

Diarrhoea and dysentery incidence rate by prov/city, all ages

4.3.4.2.

Diarrhoea and dysentery new cases by month, 2002

4.3.4.3.

Diarrhoea and dysentery new cases trends by year, 1995-2002

4.3.4.4.

Top 20 district incidence rate: OPD diarrhoea and dysentery cases

4.3.4.5.a.

Map of diarrhoea, incidence rate, by district, all ages

4.3.4.5.b

Map of dysentery, incidence rate, by district, all ages

4.3.5.

Leprosy 

4.3.5.1.

Leprosy new cases and follow-up, incidence rate by province

4.3.5.2.

Leprosy new cases trend by year, 1990-2002

4.3.6.

Schistosomiasis   

4.3.6.1.

Schistosomiasis OPD incidence rate, age group by prov/city

4.3.6.2.

Schistosomiasis OPD new cases & incidence rate by year, 1992-2002

4.3.6.3.

Schistosomiasis incidence rate and rainfall trend by nation, 1992-2002

4.3.6.4. 

Schistosomiasis new cases seasonal trend by month, 2002

4.3.7.

Injuries

4.3.7.1.

OPD new injuries by age group and by province/city, 2002

4.3.7.2.

OPD injuries and rehabilitation new attendances, 1992-2002

4.3.7.3.

Common causes of injury cases and deaths among inpatients  by age and province/hospital

4.3.7.4.

Total casualties by type of road user, 1995-2002

4.3.7.5.

Accidents by locality, 2002

4.3.7.6.

Occupational injuries by sector, 2002

4.4.

COMMON REPORTED DISABILITIES

4.4.1.

Disabilities by condition, by province, city, central hospital, 2002

4.4.2. 

Disabilities by condition by year, 1993-2002

4.4.3. 

Disabilities by cause and by province, city, central hospital, 2002

4.4.4.

Disabilities by status and by age group, by province, city, central hospital

4.5.

COMMON REPORTED MENTAL DISORDERS 

4.5.1.

Mental disorders by province/city, 2002

4.5.2.

Mental disorders by type, 1997-2002

4.6.

MORTALITY STATUS

4.6.1.

Life expectancy trends by sex, 1978-1995

4.6.2.

Infant Mortality trend, selected years, 1978-1999

4.6.3.

Hospital still births, early neonatal deaths and perinatal mortality rate

4.6.4.

Hospital mortality trends by age group, 1992-2002

5.1.1.

Distribution of health facilities by type (N/A)

5.1.2.

Facilities provided for different health institutions by province/city, 2002

5.1.3.a

Referral Hospitals and beds by ownership, 2002

5.1.3.b.

Rural Hospitals/clinics/health centres by ownership

5.1.4. 

Provincial Health institution distribution by referral level

5.1.5

Hospital and bed distribution by province and by function

5.1.6 

Waiting Mother Shelters by province

5.2.

HEALTH PERSONNEL   

5.2.1.

Doctors in post distribution by nationality at provincial hospitals, 2002

5.2.2.

Doctors in post distribution at provincial hospitals, 1995-2002

5.2.3.

Distribution of Selected health personnel by province

5.2.4.

Distribution of human resources in Zimbabwe

5.3

FINANCIAL RESOURCES

5.3.1.a.

Grants to local authorities, Missions and voluntary organisations

5.3.1.

Chart of Real Value of Missions Funding 1993-2002

5.3.2.

Sub vote II Recurrent expenditure by vote and by province

5.3.2.

(Figure) Sub vote II Recurrent expenditure by vote and by province

5.3.3.

Sub vote III Recurrent expenditure by vote and by province

5.33

(Figure) Sub vote II and III Recurrent expenditure by vote and by province

5.3.4.

Proportion of Sub vote II and III spent by province

5.3.4.a

(Figure) Per capita allocations

5.3.4.b.

(Figure) Expenditure pattern

5.3.5.

Trends of Government Real Expenditures, 1980-1997

6.1.1. 

Antenatal and Postnatal care by Province/city, 2002

6.1.2.

Antenatal and Postnatal care, 1998- 2002

6.1.3.

Maternity care by Province/city, 2002

6.1.4.

Maternity care trend by year, 1998-2002

6.1.5.a.

Maternal mortality rates by province and by year, 1993-2002

6.1.5.b.

Major causes of maternal mortality, 2002

6.1.5.c.

Comparison of reported maternal deaths, special forms vs T5 forms

6.1.6.a.

Family Planning visits by province and by contraceptive methods, 2002

6.1.6.b.

Family Planning visits new and repeat visits, by province, 2002

6.1.7.

Methods of contraception by province/city, 2002

6.1.8.

Methods of contraception by year, 1999-2002

6.1.9.

Vaccination type by age group and province, 2002

6.1.10.

Vaccination type, year and nation, and coverages, 1998-2002

6.1.11 

Safe Water Care by Province

6.1.12 

Sanitary Care by Province

6.2. 

CURATIVE ACTIVITIES

6.2.1. 

OPD Patient utilisation by province, city, central hospitals, all ages, 2002

6.2.2. 

OPD Patient utilisation by province, city, central hospitals, 1998- 2002

6.2.3. 

Summary of Main Hospitals’ activity indicators, 2002

6.2.4.

Main Hospitals:  maternity ward performance by province, 2002

6.3.

PARAMEDICAL ACTIVITIES

6.3.1.a.

Public Health Laboratories, tests by major categories by province, 2002

6.3.2.

X-Ray performances by level and main hospital level, 2002

6.3.3  

Distribution of pharmacies by province

6.3.4. 

Pharmacy Department: Established, Filled and Vacant Posts, 1993-2002

6.3.5. a.

Drug availability by health level facilities, 1991-2002

6.3.5. b.

Drug availability by VEN categories, 1999-2002

6.3.5. c.

Drug availability for STI & TB, 1996-2002

6.3.5. d.

Summary of stock management indicators, 1999-2002

6.3.6.

Implementation of Stock management by province, 1998-2002

6.3.7.

% Average Availability of vital, essential and necessary items per health facility level

6.4.

SUPPORTING ACTIVITIES

6.4.5. a.

Disease prevention and Control Organisational chart, 2002

6.4.5. b.

NHIS information flow and interaction scheme, 2002

6.4.5. c.

NHIS Diagram of main submission forms, 2002

6.4.5. d.

NHIS: timeliness of data collection by province (T5, T9)

6.5.

OVERALL WORKLOAD AND RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION

6.5.1.

National workload OPD and Inpatient, by level and institution, 2002

6.5.2

National workload: OPD curative and preventive, Inpatient, by year, 1993-2002

Foreword

Introduction  

Methodology  

Table 1:

Number of Registered Deaths by Sex, Zimbabwe 1985 –1997  

Table 2:

Number of Registered Still Births by Source, 1990 – 1997

Table 3: 

Number of Deaths by Province and Sex, 1997   

Table 4:

Number of Deaths per Thousand Population by Province, 1997

Table 5:

Distribution of Death Certification by Province, 1997  

Table 6: 

Deaths by Marital Status and Province, 1997

Table 7:

Number of Deaths by Province and Age Group, 1997

Table 8:

Number of Deaths by Province and Activity Status, 1997  

Table 9:

Number of Deaths by Province and Month of Death, 1997

Table 10: 

Top 5 Causes of Deaths, 1997 

Table 11:

Number of Deaths by Province, District and Sex, 1997 

Table 12: 

Deaths by Activity Status, Province and Sex, 1997  

Table 13:

Deaths by Marital Status, Province and Sex, 1997   

Table 14:

Deaths by Month of Death, Province and Sex, 1997   

Table 15:

Suicide Deaths by Sex, 1990 – 1997

Table 16: 

Suicide Deaths by Province and Sex, 1997

Table 17:

Number of Suicide Deaths per 100 000 Population by Province, 1997

Table 18:

Suicide Deaths by Marital Status and Province, 1997  

Table 19: 

Suicide Deaths by Province and Age Group, 1997  

Table 20:

Suicide Deaths by Province and Activity Status, 1997

Table 21: 

Suicide Deaths by Means and Province, 1997

Table 22:

Deaths From AIDS by Province and Sex, 1997  

Table 23:

Deaths From AIDS by Age Group and Sex, 1997  

Table 24:

Deaths From AIDS by Province, Age Group and Sex, 1997  

Table 25:

Deaths by 56 Major Disease/ Conditions and Sex, 1997

Table 26:

Detailed Cause of Death List, 1997

References

Appendix:

Copy of Medical Certificate of Cause of Death  

Appendix:

Copy of Notice of Death of a Person