Epidemiological transition in a rural community of northern India: 18-year mortality surveillance using verbal autopsy

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 890-893

  Kumar, Rajesh ^a   Kumar, Dinesh ^a   Jagnoor, J ^b   Aggarwal, Arun K ^a   Lakshmi, P V M ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b GEORGE INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER; DEVELOPING WORLD; DISEASE CONTROL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SERVICES; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INJURY; RURAL POPULATION; VILLAGE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DEATH CERTIFICATE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL POPULATION; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DEATH CERTIFICATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

HARYANA; INDIA;

EID: 84866019748     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2011-200336     Document Type: Article

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