Precision-Weighted Estimates of Neonatal, Post-Neonatal and Child Mortality for 640 Districts in India, National Family Health Survey 2016
Cite as: Kim R, Liou L, Xu Y, Kumar R, Leckie G, Kapoor M, Venkataramanan, Kumar A, Joe W, Subramanian SV: Precision-weighted estimates of neonatal, post-neonatal and child mortality for 640 districts in India, National Family Health Survey 2016. J Glob Health 2020;10:020405. Precision-weighted estimates of neonatal, post-neonatal and child mortality for 640 districts in India, National Family Health Survey 2016 Rockli Kim 1,2 *, Lathan Liou 3*, Yun Xu 4, Rakesh Kumar 5, George Leckie 6, Mudit Kapoor 7, R Venkataramanan 8, Alok Kumar 9, William Joe 10 , S V Subramanian 2,11 1Division of Health Policy & Management, College of Health Science, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea 2Harvard Center for Population & Development Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 3Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 4SuperMap Software Co. Ltd, Beijing, China 5Tata Trusts, Mumbai, India 6Centre for Multilevel Modelling, University of Bristol, UK 7Economic and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), New Delhi, India 8University of Warwick, Coventry, England 9National Institution for Transforming India (NITI), Government of India, New Delhi, India 10 Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), University of Delhi Enclave, Delhi, India 11 Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA *Joint first authorship. Background The conventional indicators of infant and under-five mortality aggregate deaths occurring in the first year and the first five years, respectively. Monitoring deaths by <1 month (neonatal), 1-11 months (post-neonatal), and 12-59 months (child) can be more informative given various etiological causes that may require different interventions across these three mutually exclusive periods.
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