A 12-MONTH PROSPECTIVE COMMUNITY BASED SURVEILLANCE OF ALL-AGE DEATHS USING VERBAL AUTOPSY

Understanding what the most prevalent causes of death are in a given population can help target preventive interventions and provide health services

NEED AND JUSTIFICATION FOR THE STUDY:

Routine registration systems are incomplete or inaccurate.

Many of the completed death certificates failed to provide relevant information to allow adequate ICD-10 coding [4].

To identify preventable premature deaths.

To identify the vulnerable group for increased risk of mortality

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:

A prospective surveillance study to ascertain the death rate and most probable cause of death and the determinants in Devanahalli taluk using verbal autopsy.

Study design:  Descriptive study.