Seasonal variation in infant mortality in India

Gupta, Aashish

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“…In the later years, its value decreased even more, from 55.7 in 2005 to 43.2 in 2011 (The World Bank, ). Unfortunately, West Bengal and thus also Kolkata is still among the states with the highest IMR in India (Gupta, ). However, it is also important to mention that also in this state, the value of this index decreased in recent years.…”

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Secular changes in limb lengths and proportions from 1952 to 2011 in children, adolescents, and young adults from Kolkata (India)

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Dasgupta

et al. 2019

American J Hum Biol

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Objectives The aim of the study was to investigate the intergenerational changes of upper and lower limb lengths as well as the values of the upper, lower limb, and intermembral indicators of children, adolescents, and young adults from Kolkata (India) between 1952 to 1966 and 2005 to 2011. Methods The analysis was based on the results of anthropometric measurements of 7488 Bengali children, adolescents, and young adults. They were included in three cross‐sectional surveys, carried out in 1955 to 1966, 1982 to 1983 (only males), and 2005 to 2011. The upper and lower limb lengths were obtained and the upper and lower limb indicators, as well as an intermembral index, were calculated. The differences between the cohorts were assessed using two‐way ANOVA. Results Positive, statistically significant, secular trends regarding the length of the lower and upper limbs as well as the value of the lower limb index were observed. Negative intergenerational changes were noted for the values of the upper limb indicator and intermembral index, suggesting that the secular increase of the length of the upper limbs was less pronounced than those of the body height and lower limbs length. Conclusions The secular increase regarding the lower limbs length was associated with the socioeconomic progress of the country, but the length of the upper limbs was less sensitive for those factors. It is also important to mention that there is still very little information on those characteristics in general, which further proves the need for similar studies.

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Secular changes in limb lengths and proportions from 1952 to 2011 in children, adolescents, and young adults from Kolkata (India)

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Dasgupta

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American J Hum Biol

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“…from the birth history: DHS reports use the synthetic cohort life table approach to get period specific measures, others use a true cohort life table approach (Moultrie et al 2013), and still others estimate deaths and person years directly (Gupta 2020). For this analysis, I use a vital statistics approach to calculate NMR and IMR.…”

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Population science implications of the inclusion of stillbirths in demographic estimates of child mortality

Hathi¹

2022

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Similar factors cause both early neonatal mortality and stillbirth, and most stillbirths are preventable. Yet stillbirths are not counted in commonly used summary measures of mortality, such as life expectancy and child mortality. The bioethics literature has recognized that this is paradoxical because it implies that a population in which many babies are stillborn is equally healthy as one in which those same babies survive. However, the demography literature fails to account for stillbirth despite the field’s primary aim of describing population processes. In this article, I show that current thinking about how to measure mortality mischaracterizes population health challenges and contributes to the neglect of stillbirth measurement. To address these shortcomings, I examine stillbirth data from reproductive calendars in Demographic and Health Surveys across 42 countries in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. I find that stillbirth undermeasurement is not uniform across places: the places with worse early life health may have poorer measurement of stillbirth than places with better early life health. Through the calculation of “stillbirth-adjusted” infant and neonatal mortality rates, I demonstrate that it is possible to implement population health measures that include stillbirth. Adjusted rates show that a substantial portion of early-life mortality is left out of traditional demographic mortality measures. These findings have implications for population theory, forcing us to reconsider underlying assumptions in demographic measurement. They also allow for a more complete assessment of the health of societies.

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“…Appendix figure A1 reports ratios of mortality rates between the CRS and the SRS by age.10 The NFHS is India's version of the DHS surveys. We calculate age-specific mortality by year in the NFHS by using the approach outlined in(Moultrie et al, 2013;Gupta, 2020b). In particular, we estimated person-years lived and deaths in the age group 0-1 for the individual years starting 2004 to 2015.11 The recently released NFHS-5 state fact-sheets do have information sex-specific probability of dying by age 1.…”

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Assessing mortality registration in Kerala: The MARANAM Study

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Mani²

2020

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Despite having universal mortality registration, vital registration systems in many regions of contemporary developing countries do not receive adequate attention. Using individual-level vital-registration data on more than 2.8 million deaths between 2006 and 2017 from the Kerala MARANAM (Mortality and Registration Assessment and Monitoring) Study, we examine completeness of vital statistics and reliability of mortality rates estimated using them. Our findings show that age-specific mortality rates obtained from vital statistics system in Kerala, a comparatively low-mortality context in a low- and middle-income setting, are more reliable than the ones estimated by India's Sample Registration System. This is particularly true for ages where mortality is low, and for women. Using these data we provide the first set of annual sex-specific life-tables for any state in India. We find that life expectancy at birth was 77.9 years for women in 2017, and 71.4 years for men. Although Kerala is unique in many ways, our findings strengthen the case for more attention to mortality records within developing countries, and for their better dissemination by government agencies.

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Seasonal variation in infant mortality in India

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Secular changes in limb lengths and proportions from 1952 to 2011 in children, adolescents, and young adults from Kolkata (India)

Secular changes in limb lengths and proportions from 1952 to 2011 in children, adolescents, and young adults from Kolkata (India)

Population science implications of the inclusion of stillbirths in demographic estimates of child mortality

Assessing mortality registration in Kerala: The MARANAM Study

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