Validity and completeness of death reporting and registration in a rural district of Vietnam

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 31, Issue 62_suppl, 2003, Pages 12-18

  Huy, Tran Quang ^a,e   Long, Nguyen Hoang ^b   Hoa, Dinh Phuong ^c   Byass, Peter ^d   Eriksson, Bo ^e  

^a Vietnam Sweden Uong Bi General Hospital   (Viet Nam)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Viet Nam)

^c Institute for Protection of Children's Health   (Viet Nam)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e NORDIC SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

census; death registration; demography; household survey; mortality; validity; Vietnam.

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGISTER; REPRODUCIBILITY; RURAL POPULATION; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY; VIET NAM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CENSUSES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEATH CERTIFICATES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; VIETNAM;

EID: 1542437488     PISSN: 14034948     EISSN: 16511905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14034950310015059     Document Type: Article

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