Malaria mortality estimates: Need for agreeable approach

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 219-221

  Ye, Yazoume ^a   Kyobutungi, Catherine ^b   Ogutu, Bernhards ^c   Villegas, Leopoldo ^a   Diallo, Diadier ^d   Tinto, Halidou ^e   Oduro, Abraham ^f   Sankoh, Osman ^c,g,h  

^a ICF INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b AFRICAN POPULATION AND HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER   (Kenya)

^c Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Ghana)

^d PATH   (Senegal)

^e CENTRE MURAZ   (Burkina Faso)

^f NAVRONGO HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ghana)

^g UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cause of death; Health and demographic surveillance systems; Malaria mortality; Verbal autopsy

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM;

AFRICA; ASIA; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; HUMANS; MALARIA; OCEANIA; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 84872675987     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12020     Document Type: Editorial

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