Malaria-attributed death rates in India.

摘要

Neeraj Dhingra and colleagues estimate that, between 2001 and 2003, there were 205000 malaria deaths annually in India-13 times the WHO estimate. For 1997 and 1998, we reviewed the Medical Certification of Cause of Death undertheCivil Registration Scheme that covered 8000 hospitals across India. Of the 6.1 million deaths registered, 0.9 million (15%) were medically certified, a sample large enough to be representative of nationally registered deaths. Of these, 8048 were due to malaria. Using these estimates, and after adjustment for the variation in certification in different states, we calculated the probable number of malaria deaths to be 146032 in 1997 and 141050 deaths in 1998 (table).