Mortality trends in the City of Cape Town between 2001 and 2013: Reducing inequities in health

Background. The City of Cape Town (CoCT), South Africa, has collected cause-of-death data from death certificates for many years to monitor population health. In 2000, the CoCT and collaborators set up a local mortality surveillance system to provide timeous mortality data at subdistrict level. Init...

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Main Authors: P Groenewald, I Neethling, J Evans, V Azevedo, T Naledi, R Matzopoulos, N Nannan, J Daniels, D Bradshaw
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Health and Medical Publishing Group 2017-11-01
Series:South African Medical Journal
Online Access:http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/download/12140/8314