Distribution of cause of death in rural Bangladesh during 2003-2010: Evidence from two rural areas within matlab health and demographic surveillance site

Global Health Action

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Alam, Nurul ^a   Chowdhury, Hafizur R ^b   Ahmed, Ali ^a   Rahman, Mahfuzur ^a   Kim Streatfield, P ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Cause of death; InterVA; Matlab; Verbal autopsy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUTOPSY; BANGLADESH; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SOFTWARE; TRENDS;

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

EID: 84940377308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v7.25510     Document Type: Article

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