Verbal autopsy for stillbirth and neonatal deaths : comparing population cause specific mortality fraction using two methods
Background: Every year 3.2 million infants are stillborn and 3.6 million die within the first month. Up to 98% of these deaths occur in countries with inadequate or non-existent vital registration systems, where cause of death data are sparse and mostly derived from verbal autopsies (VA). It has bee...
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University College London (University of London)
2012
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.565658 |