Setting up a demographic surveillance system in Northern Angola

Etude de la Population Africaine

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 133-146

  Costa, Maria João ^a   Rosário, Edite ^a   Langa, António ^a   António, Gaspar ^b   Bendriss, Ali ^a,c   Nery, Susana Vaz ^a  

^a CISA Project Health Research Centre in Angola   (Angola)

^b Universidade Agostinho Neto   (Angola)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8   (France)

Author keywords

Angola; HDSS; Health and demographic surveillance system; Health research; Longitudinal data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882851084     PISSN: 08505780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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