Mortality and cause-of-death reporting and analysis systems in seven pacific island countries

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Carter, Karen L ^a,b   Rao, Chalapati ^a   Lopez, Alan D ^a   Taylor, Richard ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b SECRETARIAT OF THE PACIFIC COMMUNITY   (New Caledonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cause of death; Death registration; Mortality; Pacific islands; Vital statistics

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PACIFIC ISLANDS; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW;

CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATES; HUMANS; MORTALITY; PACIFIC ISLANDS; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84862188905     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-436     Document Type: Article

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