National, regional, and state-level all-cause and cause-specific under-5 mortality in India in 2000–15: a systematic analysis with implications for the Sustainable Development Goals

Summary: Background: India had the largest number of under-5 deaths of all countries in 2015, with substantial subnational disparities. We estimated national and subnational all-cause and cause-specific mortality among children younger than 5 years annually in 2000–15 in India to understand progres...

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Main Authors: Li Liu, PhD, Yue Chu, MSPH, Shefali Oza, PhD, Dan Hogan, PhD, Jamie Perin, PhD, Diego G Bassani, PhD, Usha Ram, ProfPhD, Shaza A Fadel, PhD, Arvind Pandey, PhD, Neeraj Dhingra, MD, Damodar Sahu, PhD, Pradeep Kumar, PGDHM, Richard Cibulskis, PhD, Brian Wahl, PhD, Anita Shet, MD, Colin Mathers, PhD, Joy Lawn, ProfPhD, Prabhat Jha, ProfDPhil, Rakesh Kumar, MD, Robert E Black, ProfMD, Simon Cousens, ProfMA
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-06-01
Series:The Lancet Global Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X19300804