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Evaluating the Quality of National Mortality Statistics from Civil Registration in South Africa, 1997–2007

BACKGROUND: 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 data are widely used by res...

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Autores principales: Joubert, Jané, Rao, Chalapati, Bradshaw, Debbie, Vos, Theo, Lopez, Alan D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3664567/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23724066
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064592