Use of verbal autopsy to determine mortality patterns in an urban slum in Kolkata, India

• Автори: Suman Kanungo (Автор), Ataru Tsuzuki (Автор), Jacqueline L Deen (Автор), Anna Lena Lopez (Автор), Krisnan Rajendran (Автор), Byomkesh Manna (Автор), Dipika Sur (Автор), Deok Ryun Kim (Автор), Vinay Kumar Gupta (Автор), R Leon Ochiai (Автор), Mohammad Ali (Автор), Lorenz von Seidlein (Автор), Sujit K Bhattacharya (Автор), John D Clemens (Автор)
• Формат: Книга
• Опубліковано: The World Health Organization, 2010-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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OBJECTIVE: To define mortality patterns in an urban slum in Kolkata, India, in the context of a cholera and typhoid fever project. METHODS: In a well-defined population that was under surveillance for 18 months, we followed a dynamic cohort of 63788 residents whose households were visited monthly by...