Algorithms for enhancing public health utility of national causes-of-death data

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Naghavi, Mohsen ^a   Makela, Susanna ^a   Foreman, Kyle ^a   O'Brien, Janaki ^a   Pourmalek, Farshad ^a   Lozano, Rafael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; DEVELOPING WORLD; DISEASE INCIDENCE; HEALTH GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SERVICES; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICAL DATA; TREND ANALYSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; THAILAND; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

EID: 77951943060     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-8-9     Document Type: Article

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