Estimating cause-specific mortality from community- and facility-based data sources in the United Republic of Tanzania: options and implications for mortality burden estimates

Estimating cause-specific mortality from community- and facility-based data sources in the United Republic of Tanzania: options and implications for mortality burden estimates

OBJECTIVE: To compare mortality burden estimates based on direct measurement of levels and causes in communities with indirect estimates based on combining health facility cause-specific mortality structures with community measurement of mortality levels. METHODS: Data from sentinel vital registrati...

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Main Authors: David R Whiting, Philip W Setel, Daniel Chandramohan, Lara J Wolfson, Yusuf Hemed, Alan D Lopez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2006-12-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862006001200009&lng=en&tlng=en

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