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Making deaths count.
Death has always been an over riding concern: two of the Millennium Development Goals express targets in terms of mortality and one out of three components of the Human Development Index is a mortality measure. It is therefore surprising that the systematic measurement of mortality is relatively recent: rudimentary life tables to summ marize mortality from the 17th century, the use of systemati...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the World Health Organisation
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0042-9686
DOI: 10.2471/blt.06.030627