Who died of what in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A cause of death analysis using InterVA-4

Global Health Action

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Mossong, Joël ^a,b   Byass, Peter ^c   Herbst, Kobus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b National Public Health Laboratory Luxembourg   (Luxembourg)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cause of death; Demographic surveillance; HIV AIDS; Mortality; South Africa; Tuberculosis; Verbal autopsy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOFTWARE; SOUTH AFRICA; TRENDS;

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

EID: 84940379609     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v7.25496     Document Type: Article

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