Evaluating national cause-of-death statistics: principles and application to the case of China

• Main Authors: Chalapati Rao (Author), Alan D. Lopez (Author), Gonghuan Yang (Author), Stephen Begg (Author), Jiemin Ma (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2005-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...