Estimating excess mortality due to female genital mutilation
dc.contributor.author | Ghosh, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Flowe, H | |
dc.contributor.author | Rockey, J | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-09-18T10:19:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-08-16 | |
dc.date.updated | 2023-09-18T08:15:58Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Globally, over 200 million women and girls have been subjected to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). This practice, illegal in most countries, often happens in unsanitary conditions and without clinical supervision with consequent bleeding and infection. However, little is known about its contribution to the global epidemiology of child mortality. We matched data on the proportion of girls of a given age group subject to FGM to age-gender-year specific mortality rates during 1990-2020 in 15 countries where FGM is practised. We used fixed-effects regressions to separate the effect of FGM on mortality-rates from variation in mortality in that country in that year. Using our estimated effect, we calculated total annual excess mortality due to FGM. Our estimates imply that a 50% increase in the number of girls subject to FGM increases their 5-year mortality rate by 0.075 percentage point (95% CI [Formula: see text]-[Formula: see text]). This increased mortality rate translates into an estimated 44,320 excess deaths per year across countries where FGM is practised. These estimates imply that FGM is a leading cause of the death of girls and young women in those countries where it is practised accounting for more deaths than any cause other than Enteric Infections, Respiratory Infections, or Malaria. | en_GB |
dc.format.extent | 13328- | |
dc.format.medium | Electronic | |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 13, article 13328 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38276-6 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/134020 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Nature Research | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37587182 | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2023. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dc.title | Estimating excess mortality due to female genital mutilation | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2023-09-18T10:19:07Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2045-2322 | |
exeter.article-number | 13328 | |
exeter.place-of-publication | England | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Nature Research via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Data availability: All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this published article [and its supplementary information files]. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2045-2322 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Scientific Reports | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartof | Sci Rep, 13(1) | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2023-07-06 | |
dc.rights.license | CC BY | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2023-08-16 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2023-09-18T10:16:58Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2023-09-18T10:19:07Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2023-08-16 |
Files in this item
This item appears in the following Collection(s)
Except where otherwise noted, this item's licence is described as © The Author(s) 2023. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or
format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the
Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this
article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the
material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not
permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from
the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/