What Can We Conclude from Death Registration? Improved Methods for Evaluating Completeness
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What Can We Conclude from Death Registration? Improved Methods for Evaluating Completeness
BACKGROUND One of the fundamental building blocks for determining the burden of disease in populations is to reliably measure the level and pattern of mortality by age and sex. Where well-functioning registration systems exist, this task is relatively straightforward. Results from many civil registration systems, however, remain uncertain because of a lack of confidence in the completeness of d...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Medicine
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1549-1676
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000262