Measuring adult mortality using sibling survival: A new analytical method and new results for 44 countries, 1974-2006

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Obermeyer, Ziad ^a,b   Rajaratnam, Julie Knoll ^a   Park, Chang H ^a,c   Gakidou, Emmanuela ^a   Hogan, Margaret C ^a   Lopez, Alan D ^d   Murray, Christopher J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASIA; CAMBODIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRECTED SIBLING SURVIVAL METHOD; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPIDEMIC; HAITI; HEALTH SURVEY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL TIME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SIBLINGS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951754865     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000260     Document Type: Article

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