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A composite metric for assessing data on mortality and causes of death: the vital statistics performance index

BACKGROUND: Timely and reliable data on causes of death are fundamental for informed decision-making in the health sector as well as public health research. An in-depth understanding of the quality of data from vital statistics (VS) is therefore indispensable for health policymakers and researchers....

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Autores principales: Phillips, David E, Lozano, Rafael, Naghavi, Mohsen, Atkinson, Charles, Gonzalez-Medina, Diego, Mikkelsen, Lene, Murray, Christopher JL, Lopez, Alan D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4060759/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24982595
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-12-14