Moving from data on deaths to public health policy in Agincourt, South Africa: Approaches to analysing and understanding verbal autopsy findings

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Byass, Peter ^a   Kahn, Kathleen ^a,b   Fottrell, Edward ^a   Collinson, Mark A ^a,b   Tollman, Stephen M ^a,b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MORTALITY; PHYSICIAN; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POLICY; STATISTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PUBLIC POLICY; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77956818356     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000325     Document Type: Article

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