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TUBERCULOSIS MORTALITY RATE IN A SOUTH INDIAN RURAL
POPULATION |
AK Chakraborty, GD Gothi, S Dwarakanath & Hardan
Singh: Indian J TB 1978, 25, 181-86. |
Information on cause specific mortality rates due
to tuberculosis in India is inadequate. In the study under report,
these have been estimated based on the data obtained from a five
year epidemiological study of 119 villages of Bangalore district
in south India. For this purpose, the estimated number of excess
deaths due to causes other than tuberculosis among patients of tuberculosis,
have been attributed to the disease.
The annual mortality due to all causes on 5 year
observation could be calculated as 893 per 1,00,000 population (9%)
aged 5 years and above. Agewise as well as overall mortality rates
were not different from survey I & II, II & III & III
& IV. The average rate of the periods is calculated to be 84
per 1,00,000 annually. The death rates were the highest in 55 years
and above age groups, lower in 5-14 years and showed an increasing
trend with age. Compared to the estimates of tuberculous deaths
in India available for 1949 (about 250/1,00,000), the present rates
were lower.
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KEY WORDS: MORTALITY, RURAL POPULATION, LONGITUDINAL
SURVEY. |