The application of a biometric identification technique for linking community and hospital data in rural Ghana

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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Main Authors: Eliezer Ofori Odei-Lartey, Dennis Boateng, Samuel Danso, Anthony Kwarteng, Livesy Abokyi, Seeba Amenga-Etego, Stephaney Gyaase, Kwaku Poku Asante, Seth Owusu-Agyei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2016-03-01
Series:Global Health Action
Subjects:
biometrics
fingerprint
identification
techniques
electronic
database
data-linkage
Online Access:http://www.globalhealthaction.net/index.php/gha/article/view/29854/pdf_224

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