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

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...

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Published in:	Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Main Authors:	Suman Kanungo, Ataru Tsuzuki, Jacqueline L Deen, Anna Lena Lopez, Krisnan Rajendran, Byomkesh Manna, Dipika Sur, Deok Ryun Kim, Vinay Kumar Gupta, R Leon Ochiai, Mohammad Ali, Lorenz von Seidlein, Sujit K Bhattacharya, John D Clemens
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	The World Health Organization 2010-09-01
Online Access:	http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862010000900010&lng=en&tlng=en