Economic feasibility of a new method to estimate mortality in crisis-affected and resource-poor settings

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Roberts, Bayard ^a   Morgan, Oliver W ^b   Sultani, Mohammed Ghaus ^a   Nyasulu, Peter ^c   Rwebangila, Sunday ^d   Sondorp, Egbert ^a   Chandramohan, Daniel ^a   Checchi, Francesco ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^d United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCUMENTATION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALAWI; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; MYANMAR; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFUGEE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TANZANIA; THAILAND; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; SURVIVAL RATE;

AFGHANISTAN; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DATA COLLECTION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; MALAWI; MORTALITY; MYANMAR; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TANZANIA;

EID: 80052891297     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025175     Document Type: Article

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