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18% of the world's population lives in India, and many states of India have populations similar to those of large countries. Action to effectively improve population health in India requires availability of reliable and comprehensive state-level estimates of disease burden and risk factors over time. Such comprehensive estimates have not been available so far for all major diseases and risk factors...
The age-specific mortality rates and total deaths from specific cancers have not been documented for the various regions and subpopulations of India. We therefore assessed the cause of death in 2001–03 in homes in small areas that were chosen to be representative of all the parts of India. At least 130 trained physicians independently assigned causes to 122 429 deaths, which occurred in 1·1 million...
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