[The causes of death of the women of childbearing age at the hospitals of Sfax].

Aim: To study the principal causes of death of the women dead at an âge ranging between 15 and 49 years old and having been hospitalized in a public medical structures of the gouvernorat of Sfax.

Methods: Retrospective study concerning all the included deaths between 1999 and 2007.

Results: The study was related to 728 deaths, which correspond to an average of 80.

[Health indicators of the University Hospital Center Hedi Chaker of Sfax in 2002].

Aim: The objective of this work was to present the main results of this investigation during the year 2002 and to describe the profile of the hospital morbidity.

Methods: In the setting of the epidemiologic supervision, the Community Medicine and Epidemiology service in Sfax leads a continuous descriptive study of the hospital morbidity and mortality.

Results: The average age of the hospitalized was 32.