Evaluation of record linkage of mortality data between a health and demographic surveillance system and national civil registration system in South Africa

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kabudula, Chodziwadziwa W ^a   Joubert, Jané D ^b,c   Tuoane Nkhasi, Maletela ^d   Kahn, Kathleen ^a,e,f   Rao, Chalapati ^c   Gómez Olivé, Francesc X ^a   Mee, Paul ^a,e   Tollman, Stephen ^a,e,f   Lopez, Alan D ^g   Vos, Theo ^h   Bradshaw, Debbie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d Statistics South Africa   (South Africa)

^e UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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

^g UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Agincourt HDSS; Civil registration system; Death registration; Health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS); Mortality; Record linkage; South Africa

Indexed keywords

CIVIL SERVICE; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; NATIONAL CIVIL REGISTRATION SYSTEM; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROBABILITY; RECORD LINKAGE OF MORTALITY DATA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICAN; STATISTICAL BIAS; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84908089593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12963-014-0023-z     Document Type: Article

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