Causes of death in Tonga: Quality of certification and implications for statistics

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Carter, Karen ^a   Hufanga, Sione ^b   Rao, Chalapati ^a   Akauola, Sione ^c   Lopez, Alan D ^a   Rampatige, Rasika ^a   Taylor, Richard ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Ministry of Health   (Australia)

^c WESTERN HEALTH   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cause of death; Death certification; Medical record review; Mortality; Noncommunicable diseases; Pacific islands; Tonga

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CERTIFICATION; DATA SET; DIABETES; HEALTH RISK; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL DISEASE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; NEOPLASM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SKIN DISEASE; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; TONGA; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

TONGA;

EID: 84857679956     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-10-4     Document Type: Article

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