A scandal of invisibility: making everyone count by counting everyone

Lancet

Volumn 370, Issue 9598, 2007, Pages 1569-1577

  Setel, Philip W ^a   Macfarlane, Sarah B ^b   Szreter, Simon ^c   Mikkelsen, Lene ^d   Jha, Prabhat ^e   Stout, Susan ^f   AbouZahr, Carla ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ST JOHN S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^d Health Metrics Network   (Australia)

^e ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f WORLD BANK   (United States)

^g Health Metrics Network   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH CERTIFICATE; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTRATION; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 35548973359     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61307-5     Document Type: Review

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