Mortality in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A nationwide survey

Lancet

Volumn 367, Issue 9504, 2006, Pages 44-51

  Coghlan, Benjamin ^a,b   Brennan, Richard J ^c   Ngoy, Pascal ^d   Dofara, David ^d   Otto, Brad ^e   Clements, Mark ^b   Stewart, Tony ^a  

^a BURNET INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b The Australian National University   (Australia)

^c INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE   (Congo)

^e Burnet Institute   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONGO; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; VIOLENCE;

EID: 29844447778     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)67923-3     Document Type: Article

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