Suicide rates in rural Tamil Nadu, South India: Verbal autopsy of 39 000 deaths in 1997–98

Gajalakshmi, Vendhan; Peto, Richard

doi:10.1093/ije/dyl308

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Suicide rates in rural Tamil Nadu, South India: Verbal autopsy of 39 000 deaths in 1997–98

Published in International Journal of Epidemiology • Feb 1, 2007

Authors:

Vendhan Gajalakshmi

Richard Peto

Abstract

BACKGROUND: In India, death registration is not complete, especially in rural areas. Chiefly for other purposes special efforts were made to identify all deaths that occurred during 1997-98 in rural areas of one of the districts in Tamil Nadu, South India, and the verbal autopsy was done. METHODS: T...

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Verbal autopsy

Tamil

Medicine

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