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Should mortality data for the elderly be collected routinely in emergencies? The practical challenges of age-disaggregated surveillance systems

Data on the elderly are rarely collected in humanitarian emergencies. During a refugee crisis in South Sudan, Médecins Sans Frontières developed a prospective mortality surveillance system collecting data for those aged ≥50 years and found that the elderly were dying at five times the rate of those...

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Autores principales: du Cros, Philipp, Venis, Sarah, Karunakara, Unni
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4023276/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24114674
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trt085