Evaluating the quality of national mortality statistics from civil registration in South Africa, 1997-2007.

<h4>Background</h4>Two World Health Organization comparative assessments rated the quality of South Africa's 1996 mortality data as low. Since then, focussed initiatives were introduced to improve civil registration and vital statistics. Furthermore, South African cause-of-death dat...

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Main Authors: Jané Joubert, Chalapati Rao, Debbie Bradshaw, Theo Vos, Alan D Lopez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23724066/?tool=EBI