Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Childhood and adult mortality from unintentional falls in India

Jagnoor Jagnoor, Wilson Suraweera, Lisa Keay, Rebecca Q Ivers, JS Thakur, Gopalkrishna Gururaj, Prabhat Jha & for the Million Death Study Collaborators

Volume 89, Number 10, October 2011, 733-740

Table 3. Proportion of deaths from unintentional injuries and falls, by age group, from mortality surveys, the present study and indirect Global Burden of Disease estimates for India

Data sources	Unintentional injuries (%)			Falls (%)
Data sources	0–14 years	15–59 years	> 60 years	0–14 years	15–59 years	> 60 years
Rural
Survey of Cause of Death,1998	16	70	14	26	42	32
Present study, 2001–2003	21	49	30	11	26	63
Urban
Medically Certified Cause of Death, 2003	7	85^a	8^a	10	66^a	24^a
Present study, 2001–2003	10	56	34	9	19	72
All India
National Crime Research Bureau, 2003	5	85	10	11	79	10
Global Burden of Disease, 2004	16	62	22	12	35	53
Present study, 2001–2003	19	51	30	10	25	65

^a For the Medically Certified Cause of Death survey the age ranges are 15–64 years and 65 years and above, since proportional mortality is reported for 15-year intervals.