作者
Shaza A Fadel, Reeta Rasaily, Shally Awasthi, Rehana Begum, Robert E Black, Hellen Gelband, Patrick Gerland, Rajesh Kumar, Li Liu, Colin Mathers, Shaun K Morris, Saritha Nair, Leslie Newcombe, Arvind Pandey, Faujdar Ram, Usha Ram, Peter S Rodriguez, Damodar Sahu, Prabha Sati, Prakash J Shah, Anita Shet, Jay Sheth, Jitenkumar K Singh, Lucky Singh, Anju Sinha, Wilson Suraweera, Prabhat Jha
发表日期
2017/10/28
期刊
The Lancet
卷号
390
期号
10106
页码范围
1972-1980
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Background
Documentation of the demographic and geographical details of changes in cause-specific neonatal (younger than 1 month) and 1–59-month mortality in India can guide further progress in reduction of child mortality. In this study we report the changes in cause-specific child mortality between 2000 and 2015 in India.
Methods
Since 2001, the Registrar General of India has implemented the Million Death Study (MDS) in 1·3 million homes in more than 7000 randomly selected areas of India. About 900 non-medical surveyors do structured verbal autopsies for deaths recorded in these homes. Each field report is assigned randomly to two of 404 trained physicians to classify the cause of death, with a standard process for resolution of disagreements. We combined the proportions of child deaths according to the MDS for 2001–13 with annual UN estimates of national births and deaths (partitioned across India's …
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