Using verbal autopsy to track epidemic dynamics: The case of HIV-related mortality in South Africa

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE CLASS; CAUSE OF DEATH; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEALTH WORKER; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERCEPTION; TRACKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOUTH AFRICA; VERBAL AUTOPSY;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 79961112976     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-9-46     Document Type: Article

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