Two decades of mortality change in rural northeast South Africa

• Main Authors: Chodziwadziwa W. Kabudula (Author), Stephen Tollman (Author), Paul Mee (Author), Sizzy Ngobeni (Author), Bernard Silaule (Author), F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé (Author), Mark Collinson (Author), Kathleen Kahn (Author), Peter Byass (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2014-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: The MRC/Wits University Agincourt research centre, part of the INDEPTH Network, has documented mortality in a defined population in the rural northeast of South Africa for 20 years (1992-2011) using long-term health and socio-demographic surveillance. Detail on the unfolding, at times un...