Childhood and adult mortality from unintentional falls in India

• Main Authors: Jagnoor Jagnoor (Author), Wilson Suraweera (Author), Lisa Keay (Author), Rebecca Q Ivers (Author), JS Thakur (Author), Gopalkrishna Gururaj (Author), Prabhat Jha (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2011-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE: To estimate fall-related mortality by type of fall in India. METHODS: The authors analysed unintentional injury data from the ongoing Million Death Study from 2001-2003 using verbal autopsy and coding of all deaths in accordance with the International statistical classification of disease...