Disease-specific mortality burdens in a rural Gambian population using verbal autopsy, 1998-2007

Global Health Action

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Jasseh, Momodou ^a,b   Howie, Stephen R C ^a   Gomez, Pierre ^a   Scott, Susana ^a,c   Roca, Anna ^a   Cham, Mamady ^d   Greenwood, Brian ^c   Corrah, Tumani ^a   D'Alessandro, Umberto ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

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

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d AFPRC General Hospital   (Gambia)

Author keywords

Cause of death; Communicable disease; Disease specific mortality; Farafenni; Mortality; Non communicable disease; The Gambia; Verbal autopsy

Indexed keywords

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

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

EID: 84939635912     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v7.25598     Document Type: Article

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