Mortality registration and surveillance in China: History, current situation and challenges

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Yang, Gonghuan ^a   Hu, Jianping ^b   Rao, Ke Quin ^b   Ma, Jeimin ^a   Rao, Chalapati ^c   Lopez, Alan D ^c  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; DEATH CERTIFICATE; EMPIRICISM; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MORTALITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL; REGISTRATION; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 18144383239     PISSN: 14787954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-3-3     Document Type: Review

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