Introduction: Trauma-related deaths are having a major impact on families and communities around the world. Reports show that developing countries are highly affected by trauma deaths. This study aims to evaluate the importance of mortality surveillance and the verbal autopsy strategy in the identification of deaths due to trauma.

Methodology: For the study used data from the Surveillance System of Events and Causes of Death (COMSA) through the 2019 and 2020 reports, automated methods are used to determine the cause of death as (InterVA), Insilico. Data collection was done in ODK by community surveillance agents, aka CSA and after its collection are sent to a server for subsequent verbal autopsy interview performed by trained inquirers to one. STATA was used for data analysis.

Findings: COMSA/SISCOVE reported 4,220 deaths in 2019 and in 2020 reported 3,636, of these during the 2019 period for children 5 to 14 years of age, based on two coding algorithms, the top specific causes were trauma (17-18%) and 2020 leading causes of death identified were trauma (19%). Among people 15 to 49 years of age, in 2019 the causes of death from trauma were about (14-15%) and in 2020 it was about 14%.

Conclusion: With the present study, we realize that deaths resulting from trauma are public health challenges in Mozambique. Traffic accidents are the most common cause of trauma-related deaths in the study area. The findings also indicated that younger age groups are highly affected by trauma deaths.

Keywords: Causes of death, trauma, verbal autopsy