The Lancet
Nov 27, 2010  Volume 376  Number 9755  Pages 1799 – 1872
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

What do children die from in India today?
Emmanuela Gakidou, Alan D Lopez

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In The Lancet, The Million Death Study Collaborators make an important contribution to a topic of great public health significance: the causes of child mortality in India and their distribution across sexes and geographical regions. As the deadline of 2015 for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) looms, the urgency for scaling up interventions becomes more pressing—especially in India, where 29.3% of global neonatal deaths and 16.1% of global child deaths occur. This new study shows the first estimates of the leading causes of child mortality from direct measurement of 23,152 child deaths captured across the country.