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Table 2 Deaths reported from the study districts in death and fever surveillance arms and cause of death assigned by medical experts

From: Surveillance based estimation of burden of malaria in India, 2015–2016

District

Area/ arm

Study popn.

Verbal autopsy done (N)*

No. of confirmed malaria death N (%)

No. of suspected malaria deaths N (%)

No. of death-causes other than malaria N (%)

No. of un-classified deaths N (%)

Koraput#

Death

199,822

946

60 (6.34)

35 (3.69)

832 (87.9)

19 (2.0)

Chatra#

Death

210,200

756

1(0.1)

1(0.1)

736 (97.3)

18 (2.4)

Jhabua

Death

201,143

558

0

1(0.17)

557 (99.8)

0

 

Surveil.

208,389

403

0

0

379 (94.0)

24 (6.0)

Dakshin Kannada

Death

202,000

1143

0

0

823 (72.0)

320 (28.0)

 

Surveil.

201,292

950

3 (0.31)

0

657 (69.1)

290 (30.5)

Kolhapur

Death

210,970

1006

0

0

729 (72.4)

277 (27.5)

 

Surveil.

196,460

964

1 (0.1)

0

696 (72.2)

267 (27.7)

Jaipur

Death

201,227

640

0

0

616 (96.2)

24 (3.75)

 

Surveil.

200,622

659

0

0

648 (98.3)

11 (1.7)

  1. *The number of deaths captured varied in study districts as community response was uneven. #In Koraput and Chatra tough terrain and poor accessibility permitted collation of death information verbal autopsy to the Death area/arm only