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Mohamad M. El Backoush, MBBCh, Ph D, Family and Community Medicine, Al- Fateh University, PO Box 13229, Tripoli, Libya, Al- Fateh University, PO Box 13229, Tripoli, Libya, 00218 61 2222194, singhratan2000@gmail.com and Ratan Singh, MBBS, MD, Family and Community Medicine, Al Tahady University, PO Box 16, Sirt, Libya.

Mortality data if regularly analyzed could provide adequate information about leading cause of mortality and risk group, which would help to plan services and evaluate the progress in health status. The present investigation is a descriptive study of 3329 and was conducted at the Benghazi governorate for the period of two years. The source of data were death certificates registered and filed at the civil registration office of Benghazi Governorate. All death certificates are competed by doctors. Age specific mortality rate were calculated and compared with other studies. The number of male deaths higher than females. According to age (17.9%) were under five, (5.11%) school age group (5-19), 33% were adults (20-64), 45.5% were elderly (65 years. and above). The crude death rate was 3.0 per 1000 population and under five mortality rate was 18.9 per 1000 live births. By place about three-fourths of deaths were at hospitals compare one-fourth at home. The commonest causes of mortality were congenital anomalies during infancy, external causes during childhood, youth & young adulthood, diseases of cardiovascular system in middle adulthood and senility in old age. Thus simple analysis of the routine mortality data was a valuable source of planning health service, health manpower production and health promotion even before morbidity and risk factor data were adequately generated for necessary modification of National Health Service and Health Manpower Production in a developing country. Measures for implementation have been further classified under research, education and training and services.

Learning Objectives:

• To bring out the importance and routinely collected mortality data for identification of serious health problems and modification of health care system, and draw attention to health challenges in developing countries particularly inv a capital surplus oil exporting Arab nation.

Keywords: Maternal Morbidity, Reproductive Health

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