Civil registration systems and vital statistics: successes and missed opportunities

Lancet

Volumn 370, Issue 9599, 2007, Pages 1653-1663

  Mahapatra, Prasanta ^a   Shibuya, Kenji ^b   Lopez, Alan D ^c   Coullare, Francesca ^d   Notzon, Francis C ^e   Rao, Chalapati ^c   Szreter, Simon ^f  

^a Institute of Health Systems   (India)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNITED NATIONS   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

^f ST JOHN S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH CERTIFICATE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REGISTRATION; REVIEW; VITAL STATISTICS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CAUSE OF DEATH; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGISTRIES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; UNITED NATIONS; VITAL STATISTICS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 35548995117     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61308-7     Document Type: Review

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