Cause-specific mortality at INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance System Sites in Africa and Asia: Concluding synthesis

Global Health Action

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Sankoh, Osman ^a,b,c   Byass, Peter ^b,d  

^a Iganga Mayuge Health and Demographic Surveillance Site   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c HANOI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Africa; Asia; Cause of death; INDEPTH Network; Mortality; Verbal autopsy

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ASIA; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MORTALITY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRENDS;

AFRICA; ASIA; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DATA COLLECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84930034095     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v7.25590     Document Type: Article

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