15. 'Abed, Y. and Zada, I.D. Investigation of Home Infant Deaths in Gaza Strip. Presented to the WHO Training workshop on health services research in primary health care in the West Bank and Gaza. Jerusalem: 1987, 12 pp.

Between January and April of 1987, 138 questionnaires were completed in the death registration office for deaths of infants less than one year of age. Thirteen were discarded and the remaining 125 were analyzed. Of those, 22% were below one month of age and 61% were females. Fifty-one percent died of Pneumonia, 17% of gastroenteritis and 12% of congenital anomalies. When asked why the child was not referred to hospital, 42% of the mothers gave "a large family" that is, too busy as the reason.