Evaluation of cause-of-death statistics for Brazil, 2002-2004

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 891-901

  França, Elisabeth ^a   De Abreu, Daisy Xavier ^a   Rao, Chalapati ^b   Lopez, Alan D ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brazil; Cause of death; Evaluation; Mortality; Vital statistics

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA QUALITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MORTALITY; STATISTICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONTENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH STATISTICS; HUMAN; INFANT; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; VALIDITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAZIL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL CLASS;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 48349141461     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyn121     Document Type: Article

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