Selected emergency clinical conditions and representative disease28
| Condition | Disease examples | Associated regional percentage of total death according to Global Burden of Disease |
| Trauma | Falls, road injury, violence, burn | 7.15% |
| Sepsis | Malaria, PNA, neonatal sepsis, measles, HIV, meningitis, maternal sepsis | 32.6% |
| Acute respiratory compromise | Lower respiratory infections, COPD, asthma | 10.97% |
| Shock | Diarrhoeal disease | 6.82% |
| Altered mental status | Seizure, ingestion, diabetes | 2.68% |
| Pain |
Headache (stroke) Abdominal pain (PUD, gastritis, appendicitis, gall bladder disease, ileus) Chest pain (ischaemic heart disease, hypertensive heart disease, cardiomyopathy, rheumatic heart disease) | 5.15% 1.3% 6.8% |
| Obstetrical bleeding | Postpartum haemorrhage, ectopic pregnancy | 0.79% |
| Total % of African Region Global Burden of Disease mortality addressed by emergency care | 74.26% | |
COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; PNA, pneumonia; PUD, peptic ulcer disease.