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Over 75% of the annual estimated 9.5 million deaths in
India occur at home, and the large majority of these do not have a
certified cause. Over the time period of 1998-2014, we will monitor nearly 14 million people in 2.4 million
nationally representative Indian households (6.3 million people in 1.1
million households in the 1998-2003 sample frame and 7.6 million people
in 1.3 million households in the 2004-2014 sample frame) for vital
status and, if dead, the causes of death through a well-validated verbal
autopsy (VA) instrument.
About 300,000 deaths from 1998-2003 and some 700,000 deaths from
2004-2014 are expected; of these about 850,000 will be coded by two
physicians to provide causes of death by gender, age, socioeconomic
status, and geographical region.
This study will reliably document not only the underlying cause
of child and adult deaths but also key risk factors. It offers a
globally replicable model for reliably estimating cause-specific
mortality using VA and strengthens India’s flagship mortality monitoring
system. Despite the misclassification that is still expected, the new
cause-of-death data will be substantially better than that available
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| Phase I (2001-2003) |
Phase II (2004-2006) |
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already been concluded on 150,000 deaths |
Phase II of the study currently in
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