Identifying and verifying causes of death in Turkey: National verbal autopsy survey

Public Health

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 150-158

  Akgun S ^a   Colak M ^a   Bakar, C ^b  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ÇANAKKALE ONSEKIZ MART UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Global burden of disease; Mortality rates; Turkey; Verbal autopsy survey

Indexed keywords

AGE; CAUSE OF DEATH; GENDER RELATIONS; HEALTH CARE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; RURAL AREA; SURVEY METHOD; URBAN AREA;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; ASTHMA; ATHEROSCLEROTIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; AUTOPSY; BACTEREMIA; BIRTH INJURY; BLOOD DISEASE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRONCHUS CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIVER CANCER; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MENINGITIS; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PNEUMONIA; PREMATURITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RELIABILITY; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPTICEMIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; STILLBIRTH; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; VALIDITY; VERBAL AUTOPSY SURVEY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RURAL POPULATION; TURKEY; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

TURKEY;

EID: 84856576915     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: 14765616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2011.09.031     Document Type: Article

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