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

• Main Authors: David R Whiting (Author), Philip W Setel (Author), Daniel Chandramohan (Author), Lara J Wolfson (Author), Yusuf Hemed (Author), Alan D Lopez (Author)
• 格式: 圖書
• 出版: The World Health Organization, 2006-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• 主題: article
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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...