Global estimates of country health indicators: Useful, unnecessary, inevitable?

Global Health Action

Volumn 10, Issue , 2017, Pages

  AbouZahr, Carla ^a   Boerma, Ties ^b   Hogan, Daniel ^b  

^a CAZ Consulting   (Switzerland)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Capacities; Country health information systems; Data users and uses; Ethics; Global health estimates; Health statistics; Modelling

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH STATISTICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; STAFF; SYNTHESIS; UNCERTAINTY; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DATA COLLECTION; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS;

EID: 85028917026     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16549716.2017.1290370     Document Type: Review

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