Adult mortality surveillance by routine health workers using a short verbal autopsy tool in rural north India

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 501-506

  Krishnan, Anand ^a   Kumar, Rakesh ^a   Nongkynrih, Baridalyne ^a   Misra, Puneet ^a   Srivastava, Rahul ^a   Kapoor, Suresh K ^b  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b ST STEPHEN S HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH WORKER; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL AREA; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RURAL POPULATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RURAL POPULATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

INDIA;

EID: 84864007394     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2010.127480     Document Type: Article

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