The impact of under-recording on cervical cancer-related mortality rates in Colombia: An equity analysis involving comparison by provenance;Impacto del sub-registro en la mortalidad por cáncer cervical por procedencia, en Colombia. Un análisis de equidad

Revista de Salud Publica

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 912-921

  Aponte González, Johanna ^a   Rincón, Carlos ^a   Eslava Schmalbach, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Disease notification (source: MeSH, NLM); Mortality; Needs assessment; Utrine cervical neoplasm

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887366169     PISSN: 01240064     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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