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Usha Ram
Researcher at University of Toronto
Publications - 10
Citations - 544
Usha Ram is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Child mortality & Mortality rate. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 10 publications receiving 480 citations. Previous affiliations of Usha Ram include International Institute of Minnesota & International Institute for Population Sciences.
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Trends in selective abortions of girls in India: analysis of nationally representative birth histories from 1990 to 2005 and census data from 1991 to 2011
Prabhat Jha,Maya Kesler,Rajesh Kumar,Faujdar Ram,Usha Ram,Usha Ram,Lukasz Aleksandrowicz,Diego G. Bassani,Shailaja Chandra,Jayant K. Banthia +9 more
TL;DR: For instance, the authors found that the conditional sex ratio for second-order births when the firstborn was a girl fell from 906 per 1000 boys (99% CI 798-1013) in 1990 to 836 (733-939) in 2005; an annual decline of 0·52% (p for trend=0·002).
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Neonatal, 1–59 month, and under-5 mortality in 597 Indian districts, 2001 to 2012: estimates from national demographic and mortality surveys
Usha Ram,Usha Ram,Prabhat Jha,Faujdar Ram,Kaushalendra Kumar,Shally Awasthi,Anita Shet,Joy Pader,Stella Nansukusa,Rajesh Kumar +9 more
TL;DR: This work estimates neonatal, 1-59 months, and overall under-5 mortality by sex for 597 Indian districts and assesses whether India is on track to achieve the UN 2015 Millennium Development Goal for under- 5 mortality (MDG 4).
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Facility Delivery, Postnatal Care and Neonatal Deaths in India: Nationally-Representative Case-Control Studies.
TL;DR: The combined effect of facility deliveries with postnatal checks ups is substantially higher than just facility delivery alone, and could avoid about 1/3 of all neonatal deaths in India (~100,000/year).
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Age-specific and sex-specific adult mortality risk in India in 2014: analysis of 0·27 million nationally surveyed deaths and demographic estimates from 597 districts.
Usha Ram,Usha Ram,Prabhat Jha,Patrick Gerland,Ryan J Hum,Peter S Rodriguez,Wilson Suraweera,Kaushalendra Kumar,Rajesh Kumar,Rajesh Dikshit,Denis Xavier,Rajeev Gupta,Prakash C. Gupta,Faujdar Ram +13 more
TL;DR: India's large variation in adult mortality by district, notably the higher death rates in eastern India, requires further aetiological research, particularly to explore whether high levels of adult mortality risks from infections and non-communicable diseases are a result of historical childhood malnutrition and infection.