Prospective study of one million deaths in India: rationale, design, and validation results.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Over 75% of the annual estimated 9.5 million deaths in India occur in the home, and the large majority of these do not have a certified cause. India and other developing countries urgently need reliable quantification of the causes of death. They also need better epidemiological evidence about the relevance of physical (such as blood pressure and obesity), behavioral (such as smoking, alcohol, HIV-1 risk taking, and immunization history), and biological (such as blood lipids and gene polymorphisms) measurements to the development of disease in individuals or disease rates in populations. We report here on the rationale, design, and implementation of the world's largest prospective study of the causes and correlates of mortality.

Methods and findings

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SUBMITTER: Jha P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1316066 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature