Maternal and Child Health

Childhood and adult mortality from unintentional falls in India.
Jagnoor J, Suraweera W, Keay L, Ivers RQ, Thakur JS, Gururajd G, Jha P for the Million Death Study Collaborators.
Bull World Health Organ. 2011 August 3; BLT.11.086306.

Trends in selective abortions of girls in India: analysis of nationally representative birth histories from 1990 to 2005 and census data from 1991 to 2011.
Jha P, Kesler MA, Kumar R, Ram F, Ram U, Aleksandrowicz L, Bassani DG, Chandra S, Banthia JK.
Lancet. 2011; 377: 1921-1928. doi: 1016/S0140-6736(11)60649-1.

Diarrhea, pneumonia, and infectious disease mortality in children aged 5-14 years in India.
Morris SK, Bassani DB, Awashti S, Kumar R, Shet A, Suraweera W, Jha P, for the MDS Collaborators.
PLoS ONE. 2011 May; 6(5): e20119 [Epub].

Unintentional injury deaths among children younger than five years of age in India: a nationally representative mortality survey of 1.1 million homes.
Jagnoor J, Keay L, Ivers R, Suraweera W, Jha P.
Injury Prevention. 2011 April 14. [Epub]. doi: 10.1136/ip.2010.029934.

Capturing the context of maternal deaths from verbal autopsies: a reliability study of the Maternal Data Extraction Tool (M-DET).
Montgomery AL, Morris SK, Kumar R, Jotkar R, Money P, Bassani DG, Jha P.
PLoS One. 2011 February 7. [Epub].

Causes of child and neonatal mortality in India: nationally-representative mortality survey.
Bassani DG, Kumar R, Morris SK, Jha P et al, for the Million Death Study Collaborators.
Lancet. 2010; 376: 1853-6.

Child mortality from solid-fuel use in India: a nationally-representative case-control study.
Bassani DG, Jha P, Dhingra N, Kumar R.
BMC Public Health. 2010; 12: 491.

Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality in 2008: a systematic analysis.
Black RE, Cousens S, Johnson HL, Lawn JE, Rudan I, Bassani DG, Jha P, Campbell H, Walker CF, Cibulskis R, Eisele T, Liu L, and Mathers C. for the Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group of WHO and UNICEF.
Lancet. 2010; 375(9730): 1969-87.

Factors associated with physician agreement on verbal autopsy of over 27000 childhood deaths in India.
Morris SK, Bassani DG, Kumar R, Awasthi S, Paul VK, Jha P.
PLoS One. 2010; 5(3): e9583.

Gender inequity and age-appropriate immunization cover in India from 1992-2006.
Corsi DJ, Bassani DG, Kumar R, Awasthi S, Jotkar R, Kaur N, Jha P.
BMC Int Health and Human Rights. 2009; 9(Suppl I): S3. [EPub].

Low male-to-female sex ratio of children born in India: national survey of 1.1 million households.
Jha P, Kumar R, Vasa P et al.
Lancet. 2006; 367:211-218.