Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Retrospective comparative evaluation of the lasting impact of a community-based primary health care programme on under-5 mortality in villages around Jamkhed, India

Vera Mann, Alex Eble, Chris Frost, Ramaswamy Premkumar & Peter Boone

Volume 88, Number 10, October 2010, 727-736

Table 5. Age-specific child mortality ratesa in intervention and control villages for the 15 years preceding the survey to evaluate the impact of the Comprehensive Rural Health Project (CRHP), Maharashtra state, India, September 1992–December 2007

Age Control villages (n = 5 515)
CRHP villages (n = 5 379)
Rateb 95% CI Rateb 95% CI
Neonatal 35.7 31.1–41.0 37.7 33.0–43.2
Infant 53.8 48.1–60.1 50.9 45.3–57.2
Under 5 yr 60.8 54.7–67.5 55.5 49.6–62.0

CI, confidence interval.

a Estimated by the Kaplan–Meier method.

b Deaths per 1000 live births.