Two decades of mortality change in rural northeast South Africa

Global Health Action

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kabudula, Chodziwadziwa W ^a,b   Tollman, Stephen ^a,b,c   Mee, Paul ^a,c   Ngobeni, Sizzy ^a   Silaule, Bernard ^a   Xavier Gomez Olive F ^a,b   Collinson, Mark ^a,b,c   Kahn, Kathleen ^a,b,c   Byass, Peter ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

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

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Africa; Agincourt; HIV AIDS; INDEPTH Network; InterVA; Mortality; Non communicable diseases; Rural; Tuberculosis; Verbal autopsy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRENDS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOFTWARE; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84922019151     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v7.25596     Document Type: Article

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