Childhood and adult mortality from unintentional falls in India

Jagnoor, Jagnoor; Suraweera, Wilson; Keay, Lisa; Ivers, Rebecca; Thakur, JS; Gururaj, Gopalkrishna; Jha, Prabhat

doi:10.2471/blt.11.086306

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“…More than 70% of India's population lives in rural areas and the burden of falls mortality among older people, are also primarily from rural areas of India 3. We conducted only two FGDs with residents of an affluent rural area, and it is likely that a larger-scale study using other qualitative methods like observation and in-depth interviews would provide more definitive recommendations about this large sector.…”

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A qualitative study on the perceptions of preventing falls as a health priority among older people in Northern India

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“…It has been estimated that approximately 100 000 deaths were due to falls in 2005 among those aged 60 years and beyond in India 3. While fall-related deaths occur in significant numbers, injuries affect a far larger number of individuals.…”

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A qualitative study on the perceptions of preventing falls as a health priority among older people in Northern India

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“…A random sample of about 5% of the areas was resurveyed independently generally with consistent results. Details of the methods, validation results, and preliminary results for various diseases have been reported previously [10][11][12][13][14].…”

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Unintentional Injury Mortality in India, 2005: Nationally Representative Mortality Survey of 1.1 Million Homes

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Background: Unintentional injuries are an important cause of death in India. However, no reliable nationally representative estimates of unintentional injury deaths are available. Thus, we examined unintentional injury deaths in a nationally representative mortality survey. Methods: Trained field staff interviewed a living relative of those who had died during 2001-03. The verbal autopsy reports were sent to two of the130 trained physicians, who independently assigned an ICD-10 code to each death. Discrepancies were resolved through reconciliation and adjudication. Proportionate cause specific mortality was used to produce national unintentional injury mortality estimates based on United Nations population and death estimates. Results: In 2005, unintentional injury caused 648 000 deaths (7% of all deaths; 58/100 000 population). Unintentional injury mortality rates were higher among males than females, and in rural versus urban areas. Road traffic injuries (185 000 deaths; 29% of all unintentional injury deaths), falls (160 000 deaths, 25%) and drowning (73 000 deaths, 11%) were the three leading causes of unintentional injury mortality, with fire-related injury causing 5% of these deaths. The highest unintentional mortality rates were in those aged 70years or older (410/100 000).

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“…Further, the source for hospitalisation data included in this study contains only drowning cases reported by participating healthcare institutions located in urban areas. This results in poor population coverage, causing the data set to be largely incomplete 35. As the majority of high-risk drowning events result in death at the time of the incident,4 only a small proportion of drowning cases present at medical facilities.…”

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Systematic review of drowning in India: assessment of burden and risk

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Drowning-related morbidity and mortality have a significant impact on India, with risk factors identified for this setting similar to those within other low-income and middle-income countries. Regional data which look beyond routinely collected data are required to accurately investigate the burden and impact of drowning, to inform targeted, context-specific approaches for drowning reduction initiatives.

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Childhood and adult mortality from unintentional falls in India

Cited by 33 publications

References 23 publications

A qualitative study on the perceptions of preventing falls as a health priority among older people in Northern India

A qualitative study on the perceptions of preventing falls as a health priority among older people in Northern India

Unintentional Injury Mortality in India, 2005: Nationally Representative Mortality Survey of 1.1 Million Homes

Systematic review of drowning in India: assessment of burden and risk

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