@article{21683,
  keywords = {Adult, Female, Humans, Aged, Male, Middle Aged, Adolescent, Child, Preschool, Aged, 80 and over, Child, Young Adult, Interviews as Topic, Socioeconomic Factors, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Sex Distribution, Population Surveillance, Age Distribution, Autopsy/ methods, Cardiovascular Diseases/mortality, Cause of Death/ trends, Communicable Diseases/mortality, Death Certificates, India/epidemiology, Rural Health/ trends, Rural Population/ statistics & numerical data},
  author = {Jagnoor J. and Kumar R. and Lakshmi P. and Kumar D. and Aggarwal A.},
  title = {Epidemiological transition in a rural community of northern India: 18-year mortality surveillance using verbal autopsy},
  abstract = {<p>
BACKGROUND: Information on causes of death is vital for planning of health services. However, vital events registration systems are weak in developing countries. Therefore, verbal autopsy (VA) tools were incorporated in a community-based surveillance system to track causes of death. METHOD AND FINDINGS: Trained fieldworker identified all deaths and interviewed a living relative of those who had died during 1992-2009, using VA, in eight villages of Haryana (11,864 populations). These field reports detailing events preceding death were reviewed by two trained physicians, who independently assigned an International Classification of Disease-10 code to each death. Discrepancies were resolved through reconciliation and, if necessary, adjudication. Non-communicable conditions were the leading causes of death (47.6%) followed by communicable diseases including maternal, perinatal and nutritional conditions (34.0%), and injuries (11.4%). Cause of death could not be determined in 6.9% cases. Deaths due to cardiovascular diseases showed a significant rise, whereas deaths due to diarrhoeal diseases have declined (p&lt;0.01). Majority (90.0%) of the deceased had contacted a healthcare provider during illness but only 11.5% were admitted in hospital before death. CONCLUSION: Rising trend of cardiovascular diseases observed in a rural community of Haryana in India calls for reorientation of rural healthcare delivery system for prevention and control of chronic diseases.
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},
  year = {2012},
  journal = {Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health},
  volume = {66},
  edition = {2011/11/05},
  number = {10},
  pages = {890-3},
  isbn = {1470-2738 (Electronic)<br/>0143-005X (Linking)},
  note = {Kumar, Rajesh<br/>Kumar, Dinesh<br/>Jagnoor, J<br/>Aggarwal, Arun K<br/>Lakshmi, P V M<br/>Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't<br/>England<br/>J Epidemiol Community Health. 2012 Oct;66(10):890-3. doi: 10.1136/jech-2011-200336. Epub 2011 Nov 2.},
  language = {eng},
}