Verbal autopsy-based cause-specific mortality trends in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 2000-2009

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Herbst, Abraham J ^a   Mafojane, Tshepiso ^a   Newell, Marie Louise ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE TREATMENT; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH WORKER; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; LIFESTYLE; POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; TREND ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BAYES THEOREM; CAUSE OF DEATH; CAUSE SPECIFIC MORTALITY FRACTION; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; INJURY; INTERVERBAL AUTOPSY; KAPPA STATISTICS; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PEER REVIEW; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PHYSICIAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENT; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SOUTH AFRICA; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; TREND STUDY; TUBERCULOSIS; VERBAL AUTOPSY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 79961123140     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-9-47     Document Type: Article

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