Improving the public health utility of global cardiovascular mortality data: the rise of ischemic heart disease

BACKGROUND: High-quality, cause-specific mortality data are critical for effective health policy. Yet vague cause of death codes, such as heart failure, are highly prevalent in global mortality data. We propose an empirical method correcting mortality data for the use of heart failure as an underlyi...

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Autores principales: Ahern, Ryan M, Lozano, Rafael, Naghavi, Mohsen, Foreman, Kyle, Gakidou, Emmanuela, Murray, Christopher JL
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3064613/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21406100
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-9-8

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3064613/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21406100
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-9-8

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