Table 4 Frequency distribution of underlying causes of death among undocumented vs. documented migrantsa and Belgians in the Brussels-Capital Region (period 2005–2010)
Causes of death (ICD-10) | Men | Women | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Undocumented | Documented | Belgian | Undocumented | Documented | Belgian | |||||||
n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
Infectious diseases | 12 | 3.9 | 68 | 3.3 | 520 | 2.4 | 9 | 6.0 | 69 | 4.9 | 789 | 2.9 |
Neoplasms | 72 | 23.5 | 522 | 25.5 | 6004 | 28.0 | 56 | 37.3 | 313 | 22.4 | 5977 | 22.1 |
Lung cancer | 9 | 2.9 | 172 | 8.4 | 1651 | 7.7 | 8 | 5.3 | 34 | 2.4 | 856 | 3.2 |
Colon cancer | 4 | 1.3 | 33 | 1.6 | 482 | 2.3 | 4 | 2.7 | 20 | 1.4 | 575 | 2.1 |
Breast cancer | / | / | / | / | / | / | 10 | 6.7 | 59 | 4.2 | 1082 | 4.0 |
Prostate cancer | 5 | 1.6 | 38 | 1.9 | 606 | 2.8 | / | / | / | / | / | / |
Cardiovascular diseases | 81 | 26.4 | 437 | 21.3 | 6389 | 29.8 | 34 | 22.7 | 348 | 24.9 | 9053 | 33.4 |
External causes | 84 | 27.4 | 179 | 8.7 | 1504 | 7.0 | 13 | 8.7 | 70 | 5.0 | 1476 | 5.5 |
Road accidents | 10 | 3.3 | 32 | 1.6 | 121 | 0.6 | 2 | 1.3 | 6 | 0.4 | 64 | 0.2 |
Accidental falls | 8 | 2.6 | 8 | 0.4 | 258 | 1.2 | 1 | 0.7 | 7 | 0.5 | 331 | 1.2 |
Suicide | 10 | 3.3 | 36 | 1.8 | 470 | 2.2 | 3 | 2.0 | 15 | 1.1 | 258 | 1.0 |
Homicide | 13 | 4.2 | 15 | 0.7 | 38 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.7 | 7 | 0.5 | 33 | 0.1 |