Main description:

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the adult mortality situation in India. Each chapter ranges from general adult mortality patterns to its consequences in India. It discusses data-related challenges to studying adult mortality and examines the level, trends, and changing patterns, whether convergence or divergence of adult mortality across the regions from 1981 to 2015. Analyzing the mortality risk across different socioeconomic groups of the population in India, it examines the major underlying causes of adult death with a detailed analysis of external causes of death. The volume enhances the reader's understanding of adult health situations through the lenses of gender, caste, religion, rural-urban, economic status, and region of residence, and its severe consequences at the household level. It is a valuable addition to knowledge on demography, epidemiology, health economics, applied statistics, and public health studies worldwide. It is a must-reference work for Master's and Ph.D. scholars to explore India's and low- and middle-income countries' mortality situations.

Contents:

Introduction.- Adult Mortality Studies Around the World and in India: Data Challenges, Research Questions, and Novelty of the Present Study.- Regional Patterns of Adult Mortality by Sex and Place of Residence in India.- Changing Adult Mortality in India: Converging or Diverging.- Socioeconomic Inequalities in Adult Mortality in India, 1998-99, 2015-26 and 2019-21.- Results.- Causes of Death in India: A Detailed Analysis of External Causes of deaths.