Evaluating national cause-of-death statistics: Principles and application to the case of China

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 83, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 618-625

  Rao, Chalapati ^a   Lopez, Alan D ^a   Yang, Gonghuan ^b   Begg, Stephen ^a   Ma, Jiemin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Dept of Wood Anatomy and Utilization   (China)

Author keywords

Cause of death; China; Data collection standards; Evaluation studies; Models, Statistical; Mortality; Statistics standards

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; HEALTH POLICY; MORTALITY; STATISTICAL DATA;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL; REGISTRATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REVIEW; STATISTICS; VALIDATION PROCESS; VITAL STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VITAL STATISTICS;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD;

EID: 23844455274     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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