The Changes of Premature Mortality in Thailand between 1997 and 2006

Abstract

The study was a new initiative to reconstruct national death registration data by the modeled structure from the verbal autopsy study and use both standard demographic method and indirect demographic technique to correct for under-registration of death. The objective of the study is to monitor progress toward premature mortality between 1997 and 2006. The results reveal that the distribution of three broader categories causes and the changes among age groups of premature mortality indicate Thailand is in median of industrialization and encountering triple burden of premature mortality (21:55:21). The primaries lost of premature mortality have been HIV, road traffic injury, and cerebrovascular disease over the period of 1997 through 2006. The overall burden of premature mortality has slightly improved in age-adjusted year of life lost rate by 7.54% mainly causing by decreases in premature mortality from HIV infectious among the aged 1-44 year. Meanwhile the growing of mortality burden among the aged 45-59 years as risk-target group and elderly at aged 60 years and over have addressed the evolving epidemic of non-communicable diseases. The dynamic trends of specific causes of premature mortality provide important clues to the success of ongoing health services and the need for development of interventions.