Better health statistics are possible

Lancet

Volumn 367, Issue 9506, 2006, Pages 190-193

  Bchir, Abdallah ^a   Bhutta, Zulfiqar ^b   Binka, Fred ^c   Black, Robert ^d   Bradshaw, Debbie ^e   Garnett, Geoff ^f   Hayashi, Kenji ^g   Jha, Prabhat ^h   Peto, Richard ⁱ   Sawyer, Cheryl ^j   Schwartländer, Bernhard ^k   Walker, Neff ^l   Wolfson, Michael ^m   Yach, Derek ⁿ   Zaba, Basia ^o  

^a Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization   (Switzerland)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^j UNITED NATIONS   (United States)

^k TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA   (Switzerland)

^l UNICEF   (United States)

^m STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

ⁿ YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^o LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH STATISTICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIFE EXPECTANCY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 30844460599     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68011-2     Document Type: Note

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