The application of a biometric identification technique for linking community and hospital data in rural Ghana
Background: The reliability of counts for estimating population dynamics and disease burdens in communities depends on the availability of a common unique identifier for matching general population data with health facility data. Biometric data has been explored as a feasible common identifier betwe...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2016-03-01
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Series: | Global Health Action |
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Online Access: | http://www.globalhealthaction.net/index.php/gha/article/view/29854/pdf_224 |