The million death study in India: Can it help in monitoring the millennium development goals?

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 0163-0165

  Bhutta, Zulfiqar A ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

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Indexed keywords

BUDGET; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; INDIA; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MONITORING; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; SAMPLE (STATISTICS); SHORT SURVEY; URBAN POPULATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MOTIVATION; NOTE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE;

CAUSE OF DEATH; DATA COLLECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHICS, MEDICAL; GOALS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INDIA; MORTALITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 33644837604     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030103     Document Type: Short Survey

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