Using equitable impact sensitive tool (EQUIST) to promote implementation of evidence informed policymaking to improve maternal and child health outcomes: a focus on six West African Countries

Table 7 Avertible deaths among the poorest by epidemiological cause and equity/operational frontier for under-five mortality in six West African countries

Main causes of deaths avertible	Benin		Burkina-Faso		Ghana		Mali		Nigeria		Senegal
Main causes of deaths avertible	Equity	Operational	Equity	Operational	Equity	Operational	Equity	Operational	Equity	Operational	Equity	Operational
Under-five deaths
Malaria	174	853	1313	1745	392	1352	42	940	4325	31,406	0	1240
Measles	0	0	216	169	12	3	169	99	1342	805	58	16
Pneumonia (U5MR)	88	299	1026	862	204	792	609	802	11,103	15,381	250	450
Diarrhoea (U5MR)	772	1100	2053	2016	545	911	1285	979	24,401	19,849	1231	998
Tetanus	0	0	11	21	194	−3.46	101	34	2926	1169	37	10
Prematurity	126	259	4	639	396	874	559	1009	5798	13,161	509	521
Asphyxia	489	136	5	635	1308	653	876	938	8693	12,059	217	536
Sepsis	38	94	144	563	770	1251	511	868	4721	8385	547	687
Maternal deaths
Complicated abortion	8	0.89	0	27	0	16	32	34	154	0	10	16
Sepsis	17	0	0	27	49	23	52	37	681	657	14	19
Hypertensive disorders	26	5	0	47	73	42	71	57	1271	926	16	31
Post-partum haemorrhage	17	0	2	46	54	21	44	39	636	656	13	22
Intra-partum haemorrhage	12	3	0.1	2	44	22	33	31	457	527	2	20
Ante-partum haemorrhage	12	3	0.94	20	44	22	33	32	462	533	2	20

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