Evaluation of the mortality registry in Ecuador (2001-2013) - social and geographical inequalities in completeness and quality

• Main Authors: Andrés Peralta (Author), Joan Benach (Author), Carme Borrell (Author), Verónica Espinel-Flores (Author), Lucinda Cash-Gibson (Author), Bernardo L. Queiroz (Author), Marc Marí-Dell'Olmo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Mortality registries are an essential data source for public health surveillance and for planning and evaluating public policy. Nevertheless, there are still large inequalities in the completeness and quality of mortality registries between and within countries. In Ecuador, there...