DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i02.056

Pages: 702-710

According to the WHO, mortality data can be defined as the number of deaths by place, time and cause. Unfortunately, in Morocco causes of death still underestimated due to a lack of precision in death certificates. The main objective of our study was to provide data on mortality profile in Casablanca region during 2012 this is an ecologic study carried out in Casablanca during 2012.The mortality data was taken from the 2012, mortality declaration registries in different departments. To encode causes of death we used the ICD 10 coding. The statistical analysis was made using the version 3.4.3 of R software. For the bivariate analysis, we used the usual statistical tests (Chi2, Student, ANOVA) and for the multivariate one we used a multinomial regression. 5667 deaths were reported, 52.7% of them were males. The mean age of death was 69.4±21.3years for women and 69.5 ±22.1years for men, cause of death was not determined for 37.0% of death certificates. The first cause of death was circulatory diseases 20.8% the second was cancer 17.6% and in the third place diabetes 9.03%, Tuberculosis (all locations included) caused just 1.52% deaths. In Morocco, despite the training received by doctors in charge of filling death certificates, we still have a declaration shortage of causes of death in the region of Casablanca. We noticed that for filling death certificates, we do not comply with the WHO recommendation, by putting the concatenation of events that leads to the death and the other troubles that contribute to the fatal outcomes. We need to improve the quality of mortality data, so we can be able to conduct researches targeting the elaboration and assessment of health politics.