Completeness of birth and death registration in a rural area of South Africa: The Agincourt health and demographic surveillance, 1992-2014

Global Health Action

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Garenne, Michel ^a,b,c,d   Collinson, Mark A ^a,e,f   Kabudula, Chodziwadziwa W ^a,e   Gómez Olivé, F Xavier ^a,e   Kahn, Kathleen ^a,e,f   Tollman, Stephen ^a,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

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

^f UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Agincourt; Completeness of vital registration; Demographic surveillance system; Level of education; household wealth; Mozambican refugee; Socioeconomic factors; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT MOTHER; DEATH; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REFUGEE; REGISTRATION; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AFRICA; VELOCITY; VITAL STATISTICS;

EID: 85015770615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/GHA.V9.32795     Document Type: Article

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