Disease-specific mortality burdens in a rural Gambian population using verbal autopsy, 1998-2007

• Main Authors: Momodou Jasseh (Author), Stephen R. C. Howie (Author), Pierre Gomez (Author), Susana Scott (Author), Anna Roca (Author), Mamady Cham (Author), Brian Greenwood (Author), Tumani Corrah (Author), Umberto D'Alessandro (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2014-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: To estimate and evaluate the cause-of-death structure and disease-specific mortality rates in a rural area of The Gambia as determined using the InterVA-4 model. Design: Deaths and person-years of observation were determined by age group for the population of the Farafenni Health and Demo...