Mortality in Cambodia: An 18-month prospective community-based surveillance of all-age deaths using verbal autopsies

Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2015, Pages NP2458-NP2470

  Goyet, Sophie ^a   Rammaert, Blandine ^a   McCarron, Margaret ^b   Khieu, Virak ^a   Fournier, Isabelle ^a   Kitsutani, Paul ^b   Ly, Sowath ^a   Mounts, Anthony ^b   Letson, William G ^c   Buchy, Philippe ^a   Vong, Sirenda ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DU CAMBODGE   (Cambodia)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c International Vaccine Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cambodia; mortality; rural health; verbal autopsy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUTOPSY; CAMBODIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUTOPSY; CAMBODIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926362752     PISSN: 10105395     EISSN: 19412479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1010539513514433     Document Type: Article

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