Causes of neonatal and child mortality in India: a nationally representative mortality survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

More than 2·3 million children died in India in 2005; however, the major causes of death have not been measured in the country. We investigated the causes of neonatal and child mortality in India and their differences by sex and region.

Methods

The Registrar General of India surveyed all deaths occurring in 2001-03 in 1·1 million nationally representative homes. Field staff interviewed household members and completed standard questions about events that preceded the death. Two of 130 physicians then independently assigned a cause to each death. Cause-specific mortality rates for 2005 were calculated nationally and for the six regions by combining the recorded proportions for each cause in the neonatal deaths and deaths at ages 1-59 months in the study with populat

SUBMITTER: Million Death Study Collaborators 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3042727 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature