Evaluating national cause-of-death statistics: principles and application to the case of China
Mortality statistics systems provide basic information on the levels and causes of mortality in populations. Only a third of the world's countries have complete civil registration systems that yield adequate cause-specific mortality data for health policy-making and monitoring. This paper descr...
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Main Authors: | Chalapati Rao (Author), Alan D. Lopez (Author), Gonghuan Yang (Author), Stephen Begg (Author), Jiemin Ma (Author) |
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The World Health Organization,
2005-08-01T00:00:00Z.
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