caa a22 4500 477068537 CHVBK 20180405111419.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02751529 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02751529 Under fives mortality in the urban slums of Lucknow [Elektronische Daten] [Shally Awasthi, Vinod Pande, Henry Glick] The main objective of this study was to elicit proportional cause specific mortality in the underfives in the urban slums of Lucknow in North India. The families with under five mortality in the 28 randomly selected slums in 1993 were located from the records of the slum health workers and verbal autopsy was conducted to assign a cause of death. There were 71 deaths among 2796 children. The annual under five mortality was 25.4 and the under five mortality rate was 126.7. After the neonatal period, "high fever” that could not be classified into any other disease incorporated in the verbal autopsy instrument, was the most common symptom associated with death, seen in 21.1% cases (95% C.I.: 15.5-34.4%) followed by these diseases: pheumonia in 19.7%, diarrhea in 18.3% and measles in 11.4%. "High fever” as the leading symptom associated with death is being reported for the first time from the urban slums of India. There is an urgent need to identify the underlying etiologies of death due to "high fever” and the policy implications are that children with fever must receive immediate and continued medical attention till the symptom persists. Dr. K C Chaudhuri Foundation, 1996 Proportional cause specific under five mortality nationallicence Under five mortality rate nationallicence Urban slums nationallicence Awasthi Shally Department of Pediatrics and Clinical Epidemiology Unit, K.G's Medical College, C-4, Officer's Colony, Niralanagar, 226 020, Lucknow, U.P. aut Pande Vinod Department of Pediatrics and Clinical Epidemiology Unit, K.G's Medical College, C-4, Officer's Colony, Niralanagar, 226 020, Lucknow, U.P. aut Glick Henry Department of General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA aut The Indian Journal of Pediatrics Springer India 63/3(1996-05-01), 363-368 0019-5456 63:3<363 1996 63 12098 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02751529 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02751529 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Awasthi Shally Department of Pediatrics and Clinical Epidemiology Unit, K.G's Medical College, C-4, Officer's Colony, Niralanagar, 226 020, Lucknow, U.P aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pande Vinod Department of Pediatrics and Clinical Epidemiology Unit, K.G's Medical College, C-4, Officer's Colony, Niralanagar, 226 020, Lucknow, U.P aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Glick Henry Department of General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Indian Journal of Pediatrics Springer India 63/3(1996-05-01), 363-368 0019-5456 63:3<363 1996 63 12098 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer