Measuring Under-Five Mortality: Validation of New Low-Cost Methods
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Measuring Under-Five Mortality: Validation of New Low-Cost Methods
BACKGROUND There has been increasing interest in measuring under-five mortality as a health indicator and as a critical measure of human development. In countries with complete vital registration systems that capture all births and deaths, under-five mortality can be directly calculated. In the absence of a complete vital registration system, however, child mortality must be estimated using sur...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Medicine
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1549-1676
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000253