Counting the dead and what they died from: an assessment of the global status of cause of death data

OBJECTIVE: We sought to assess the current status of global data on death registration and to examine several indicators of data completeness and quality. METHODS: We summarized the availability of death registration data by year and country. Indicators of data quality were assessed for each country...

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Published in:	Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Main Authors:	Colin D. Mathers, Doris Ma Fat, Mie Inoue, Chalapati Rao, Alan D. Lopez
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	The World Health Organization
Subjects:	mortality cause of death data collection registries vital statistics
Online Access:	http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862005000300009&lng=en&tlng=en